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Updated: May 19, 2025
"If you go on wearing those masculine things much longer, you'll have Jake punching your head for little slips of that kind. He's getting mighty particular, I'm told." "Not afraid of Jake!" said Toby, casting a swift look at her host. Jake was lighting his pipe. His face wore a faint smile. He was holding Toby's animal as well as his own. "Aren't you going to ride again?" he said.
A man of early middle-age, who, with the marks of delicate health upon him, had a face which, like that of "my Uncle Toby's," invited confidence. Julia, for a minute, as we settled to read, looked across the table at him with her direct, sea-green gaze; then turned to her paper and looked no more until she put the paper down and began to talk to him.
As the man spoke he grasped the boy by the coat collar with one hand and with the other plied a thin rubber cane with no gentle force to every portion of Toby's body that he could reach.
For my hobby-horse, if you recollect a little, is no way a vicious beast; he has scarce one hair or lineament of the ass about him 'Tis the sporting little filly-folly which carries you out for the present hour a maggot, a butterfly, a picture, a fiddlestick an uncle Toby's siege or an any thing, which a man makes a shift to get a-stride on, to canter it away from the cares and solicitudes of life 'Tis as useful a beast as is in the whole creation nor do I really see how the world could do without it
Who could have been so cruel?" Toby's tears ran like rain down his face, and he kissed his dying pet again and again, as if he would take all the pain to himself. "Oh, if you could only speak to me!" he cried, as he took one of the poor monkey's paws in his hand, and, finding that it was growing cold with the chill of death, put it on his neck to warm it. "How I love you, Mr. Stubbs!
But I paid slight attention to a substance of so little value to us in our present situation, as soon as I perceived the indications it gave of Toby's foresight in laying in a supply of food for the expedition.
Even if he had been within reach, Captain Larpent's sternly unapproachable exterior would have held him back. He was inclined to like the man, but he could not feel that Toby's welfare was, or ever had been, of paramount importance to him. He had thoughts only for his yacht.
That's that round hill you sees over there," and Toby pointed to a lonely mountain to the westward. Charley set forth at a trot. His example, aided by Toby's threatening whip, accelerated the speed of the dogs perceptibly, and the shore began to loom up.
Scratch Backside out, and put Cover'd way in, 'tis a Metaphor; and, I dare say, as fortification ran so much in my uncle Toby's head, that if he had been left to have added one word to the sentence, that word was it. But whether that was the case or not the case; or whether the snapping of my father's tobacco-pipe, so critically, happened through accident or anger, will be seen in due time.
All day long Toby's smile arrested pedestrians, and compelled them to buy of him, making his wares sweeter in the mouth.
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