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Or is there less reality about the "Knight" in his short cassock and old-fashioned armour and the "Wife of Bath" in hat and wimple, than for instance about Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman? Can we not hear "Madame Eglantine" lisping her "Stratford-atte-Bowe" French as if she were a personage in a comedy by Congreve or Sheridan?
Wadman had laid upon the table, he took it up; and popping, dear soul! upon a passage in it, of all others the most interesting to him which was the siege of Jericho he set himself to read it over leaving his proposal of marriage, as he had done his declaration of love, to work with her after its own way.
Wadman had given him a cut with a gap'd knife across his finger: Had it been otherwise yet as he ever look'd upon Trim as a humble friend; and saw fresh reasons every day of his life, to treat him as such it would have made no variation in the manner in which he informed him of the affair. 'I am in love, corporal! quoth my uncle Toby.
But truth is better than opinion, I maintain it; and as to the two stereotyped and unsold editions of the Essay on Consciousness, I say, Honi soit qui mal y pense! My Uncle Toby had one idea in his head, that of his bowling-green, and another, that of the Widow Wadman. Oh, spare them both!
Wadman, would not do; for that the taylor, in ripping them up, in order to turn them, had found they had been turn'd before Then turn them again, brother, said my father, rapidly, for there will be many a turning of 'em yet before all's done in the affair They are as rotten as dirt, said the corporal Then by all means, said my father, bespeak a new pair, brother for though I know, continued my father, turning himself to the company, that widow Wadman has been deeply in love with my brother Toby for many years, and has used every art and circumvention of woman to outwit him into the same passion, yet now that she has caught him her fever will be pass'd its height
God bless your honour! cried the corporal what has a woman's compassion to do with a wound upon the cap of a man's knee? had your honour's been shot into ten thousand splinters at the affair of Landen, Mrs. Wadman would have troubled her head as little about it as Bridget; because, added the corporal, lowering his voice, and speaking very distinctly, as he assigned his reason
If the marble Widow Wadman in the library had kissed the sympathizing face of Uncle Toby, I should not have been so much surprised, and should have thought it much more likely to happen. "'I am very glad to see you, Thornton, said she. 'I did not think you could come till to-morrow.
As soon as the corporal had finished the story of his amour or rather my uncle Toby for him Mrs. Wadman silently sallied forth from her arbour, replaced the pin in her mob, pass'd the wicker gate, and advanced slowly towards my uncle Toby's sentry-box: the disposition which Trim had made in my uncle Toby's mind, was too favourable a crisis to be let slipp'd
But in all cases of this nature, as it is the second blow, happen at what distance of time it will, which makes the fray I chuse for that reason to call these the amours of my uncle Toby with Mrs. Wadman, rather than the amours of Mrs. Wadman with my uncle Toby. This is not a distinction without a difference.
Wadman edged herself close in beside my uncle Toby, and squeezing herself down upon the corner of his bench, she gave him an opportunity of doing it without rising up Do look into it said she. Honest soul! thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever child look'd into a raree-shew-box; and 'twere as much a sin to have hurt thee.
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