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ful to be added to the anecdote, is this,—That whatever effect it had upon my uncle Toby,—it had a vile effect upon the house;—and if my uncle Toby had not smoaked it down as he did, it might have had a vile effect upon my father too.
CHAP. XXXVII.
—' Twill come out of itself by the bye.—All I contend for it, that I am not obliged to set out with a definition of what love is; and so long as I can go on with my story intelligibly, with the help of the word itself, without any other idea to it, that what I have in common with the rest of the world, why should I differ from it a moment before the time?—When I can
