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her example; it was so late in the year, continued my uncle Toby, and so terrible a season came on, that if things had not fallen out as they did, our troops must have perished in the open field.———
———Why therefore, may not battles, an' please your honour, as well as marriages, be made in heaven?—My uncle Toby mused.———
Religion inclined him to say one thing, and his high idea of military skill tempted him to say another; so not being able to frame a reply exactly to his mind———my uncle Toby said nothing at all; and the Corporal finished his story.
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