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The whole, land and house, should be bought for seven hundred thousand francs, for the net revenue is about twenty thousand francs.... But if Mr. Wadman finds out that we think of buying it, he is sure to add another two or three hundred thousand francs to the price; for he will lose money if the house counts for nothing, as it usually does when you buy land in the country "
An' please your honour, replied the corporal, the knee, in my opinion, must certainly be the most acute, there being so many tendons and what-d'ye-call-'ems all about it. Mrs. Wadman, who had been all the time in her arbour instantly stopp'd her breath unpinn'd her mob at the chin, and stood upon one leg
Let love therefore be what it will, my uncle Toby fell into it. And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet any thing in this world, more concupiscible than widow Wadman. To conceive this right, call for pen and ink here's paper ready to your hand.
In a man? said my father. 'Tis precisely the same, cried doctor Slop, in a woman. That's more than I know; quoth my father. And so to make sure of both systems, Mrs. Wadman predetermined to light my uncle Toby neither at this end or that; but, like a prodigal's candle, to light him, if possible, at both ends at once.
The whole, land and house, should be bought for seven hundred thousand francs, for the net revenue is about twenty thousand francs. . . . But if Mr. Wadman finds out that we think of buying it, he is sure to add another two or three hundred thousand francs to the price; for he will lose money if the house counts for nothing, as it usually does when you buy land in the country "
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.
Widow Wadman can take care of the ward alone, now the men are so comfortable, and have her vacation when you are about again. Now do be prudent in time, and don't let me have to add a Periwinkle to my bouquet of patients."
Wadman hit upon the fiddlestick, which summoned up all my uncle Toby's modest blood into his cheeks so feeling within himself that he had somehow or other got beyond his depth, he stopt short; and without entering further either into the pains or pleasures of matrimony, he laid his hand upon his heart, and made an offer to take them as they were, and share them along with her.
Wadman, whose first husband was all his time afflicted with a Sciatica, to wish to know how far from the hip to the groin; and how far she was likely to suffer more or less in her feelings, in the one case than in the other. She had accordingly read Drake's anatomy from one end to the other.
Wadman. And whereabouts, dear sir, quoth Mrs. Wadman, a little categorically, did you receive this sad blow? In asking this question, Mrs.
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