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She cannot, quoth my uncle Toby, halting, when they had march'd up to within twenty paces of Mrs. Wadman's door she cannot, corporal, take it amiss. She will take it, an' please your honour, said the corporal, just as the Jew's widow at Lisbon took it of my brother Tom. And how was that? quoth my uncle Toby, facing quite about to the corporal.
Wadman, after the manner in which women were saluted by men in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and thirteen then facing about, he march'd up abreast with her to the sopha, and in three plain words though not before he was sat down nor after he was sat down but as he was sitting down, told her, 'he was in love' so that my uncle Toby strained himself more in the declaration than he needed.
"Then where be the King's forces?" I made shift to enquire by signs. "March'd out o' Launceston to-day, lad an' but a biscuit a man between 'em, poor dears for Stratton Heath, i' the nor'-east, where the rebels be encamp'd. Heard by scouts o' these gentry bein' sent to Bodmin, and were minded to fight th' Earl o' Stamford whiles his dragooners was away.
I have known a Soldier that has enter'd a Breach, affrighted at his own Shadow; and look pale upon a little scratching at his Door, who the Day before had march'd up against a Battery of Cannon. The Truth of it is, I look upon a sound Imagination as the greatest Blessing of Life, next to a clear Judgment and a good Conscience.
So Solomon Lob march'd boldly forth To sounds of bugle horns And a weary march had Solomon Lob, For Solomon Lob had corns. Row, ra ra row de dow. "And so I wish you a good morning, most sapient Solomon. I go on business of importance affecting the welfare of the nation, or rather of the empire at large embracing all these regions, antipodial and otherwise, on which the sun never sets.
"Just in this nick the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey; Each serving man, with dish in hand, March'd boldly up, like our train-band, Presented and away."* * Sir John Suckling. The dinner was served up in the great hall, where the Squire always held his Christmas banquet.
In pronouncing this, my uncle Toby faced about, and march'd firmly as at the head of his company and the faithful corporal, shouldering his stick, and striking his hand upon his coat-skirt as he took his first step march'd close behind him down the avenue. Now what can their two noddles be about? cried my father to my mother by all that's strange, they are besieging Mrs.
We were march'd down the road for a mile or more, till we heard a loud bawling, as of a man in much bodily pain, and soon came to a small village, where, under a tavern lamp, by the door, was a man perch'd up on a tub, and shouting forth portions of the Scripture to some twenty or more green-coats assembled round. Our conductor pushed past these, and enter'd the tavern.
Then march'd he to mine Uncle and ask'd was Mistress Jessamine to oversee the Overseer, and call him hard Names for the whipping of a Troublesome Nigger? And my Uncle fell into a Fury With me. Allowed the wretch to Triumph. Shooba was whipt again. I saw his Back.
But in time, by good luck, my wits grew deaden'd to it all, and I march'd on with the rest to a kind of lugubrious singsong that my brain supplied. For hours I went thus, counting my steps, missing my reckoning, and beginning again.
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