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but justified his intention to his father by the argument drawn from the law of retaliation—"You lay'd, Sir, with my mother, said the lad—why may not I lay with yours?"—'Tis the Argumentum commune, added Yorick.—'Tis as good, replied Eugenius, taking down his hat, as they deserve.
The company broke up———
CHAP. XXX.
— And pray, said my uncle Toby, leaning upon Yorick, as he and my father were helping him leisurely down the stairs—don't be terrified, madam, this stair-case conversation is not so long as the last—And pray, Yorick, said my uncle Toby, which way is this said
