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I wish my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had been accounted for, That the first moment Widow Wadman saw him, she felt something stirring within her in his favour Something! something.
We lost it, an' please your honour, somehow betwixt us but your honour was as free from love then, as I am 'twas just whilst thou went'st off with the wheel-barrow with Mrs. Wadman, quoth my uncle Toby She has left a ball here added my uncle Toby pointing to his breast She can no more, an' please your honour, stand a siege, than she can fly cried the corporal
Was motion bad for it? et caetera, were so tenderly spoke to, and so directed towards my uncle Toby's heart, that every item of them sunk ten times deeper into it than the evils themselves but when Mrs. Wadman went round about by Namur to get at my uncle Toby's groin; and engaged him to attack the point of the advanced counterscarp, and pele mele with the Dutch to take the counterguard of St.
"I was afraid I might never see you again," gasped Mr. Ramsay. "O, don't give up, my man," said Dr. Wadman. "You may be all right in a few hours." The sick man said no more. He was in too much pain to speak again, and Dr. Wadman sent Donald to the kitchen for some hot water.
It is to the whole ignorant troop of our predestined, of our legions of snivelers, of smokers, of snuff-takers, of old and captious men that Sterne addressed, in Tristram Shandy, the letter written by Walter Shandy to his brother Toby, when this last proposed to marry the widow Wadman.
It was a bed to lie on: so that as Shandy-Hall was at that time unfurnished; and the little inn where poor Le Fever died, not yet built; my uncle Toby was constrained to accept of a bed at Mrs. A daughter of Eve, for such was widow Wadman, and 'tis all the character I intend to give of her
He took it like a lamb I say. The world is ashamed of being virtuous my uncle Toby knew little of the world; and therefore when he felt he was in love with widow Wadman, he had no conception that the thing was any more to be made a mystery of, than if Mrs.
The cart before the horse, replied my father And what is he to do there? cried my uncle Toby. Nothing, quoth my father, but to get in or let it alone. Now widow Wadman, as I told you before, would do neither the one or the other. She stood however ready harnessed and caparisoned at all points, to watch accidents. Wadman's; this, with the advantage of a thickset arbour in Mrs.
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.
It is to the whole ignorant troop of our predestined, of our legions of snivelers, of smokers, of snuff-takers, of old and captious men that Sterne addressed, in Tristram Shandy, the letter written by Walter Shandy to his brother Toby, when this last proposed to marry the widow Wadman.
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