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This will not be explained the worse, for setting off, as I generally do, at a little distance from the subject. With two or three other trinkets, small in themselves, but of great regard, which poor Tom, the corporal's unfortunate brother, had sent him over, with the account of his marriage with the Jew's widow there was A Montero-cap and two Turkish tobacco-pipes.
The eye of Goodness espieth all things so that before the corporal had well got through the first five words of his story, had my uncle Toby twice touch'd his Montero-cap with the end of his cane, interrogatively as much as to say, Why don't you put it on, Trim?
I warrant your honour; said the corporal, touching his Montero-cap with his hand, as he passed him in order to give a knock at the door My uncle Toby, contrary to his invariable way of treating his faithful servant, said nothing good or bad: the truth was, he had not altogether marshal'd his ideas; he wish'd for another conference, and as the corporal was mounting up the three steps before the door he hem'd twice a portion of my uncle Toby's most modest spirits fled, at each expulsion, towards the corporal; he stood with the rapper of the door suspended for a full minute in his hand, he scarce knew why.
And upon a close examination of myself, with respect to my habit and deportment, I could not find anything to place it on, but that I had then on my head a large montero-cap of black velvet, the skirt of which being turned up in folds, looked, it seems, somewhat above the then common garb of a Quaker; and this put me out of conceit with my cap.
The first was not an act of his will the second was; so he put on his Montero-cap, and went as fast as his lame knee would let him. My uncle Toby returned into the parlour, and sat himself down again upon the sopha. You shall lay your finger upon the place said my uncle Toby. I will not touch it, however, quoth Mrs. Wadman to herself.
The Story of the King of Bohemia and His Seven Castles. There was a certain king of Bo...he As the corporal was entering the confines of Bohemia, my uncle Toby obliged him to halt for a single moment; he had set out bare-headed, having, since he pull'd off his Montero-cap in the latter end of the last chapter, left it lying beside him on the ground.
The corporal had array'd himself in poor Le Fever's regimental coat; and with his hair tuck'd up under his Montero-cap, which he had furbish'd up for the occasion, march'd three paces distant from his master: a whiff of military pride had puff'd out his shirt at the wrist; and upon that in a black leather thong clipp'd into a tassel beyond the knot, hung the corporal's stick my uncle Toby carried his cane like a pike.
I'll be bound, said the corporal, speaking to himself, to give away my Montero-cap to the first beggar who comes to the door, if I do not manage this matter to his honour's satisfaction. The completion was no further off, than the very next morning; which was that of the storm of the counterscarp betwixt the Lower Deule, to the right, and the gate St. Andrew, and on the left, between St.
The corporal was not a little proud of it, as well for its own sake, as the sake of the giver, so seldom or never put it on but upon Gala-days; and yet never was a Montero-cap put to so many uses; for in all controverted points, whether military or culinary, provided the corporal was sure he was in the right, it was either his oath, his wager, or his gift. 'Twas his gift in the present case.
Oh corporal! had I thee, but now, now, that I am able to give thee a dinner and protection, how would I cherish thee! thou should'st wear thy Montero-cap every hour of the day, and every day of the week. and when it was worn out, I would purchase thee a couple like it: But alas! alas! alas! now that I can do this in spite of their reverences the occasion is lost for thou art gone; thy genius fled up to the stars from whence it came; and that warm heart of thine, with all its generous and open vessels, compressed into a clod of the valley!
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