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world, finally, takes it into it's head to stand still.——

———But this rich bale is not to be open'd now; except a small thread or two of it, merely to unravel the mystery of my father's stay at Auxerre.

———As I have mentioned it—'tis too slight to be kept suspended; and when 'tis wove in, there's an end of it.

We'll go, brother Toby, said my father, whilst dinner is coddling—to the abby of Saint Germain, if it be only to see these bodies, of which monsieur Sequier has given such a recommendation.—I'll go see any body; quoth my uncle Toby; for he was all compliance thro' every step of the journey———De-fend