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ny tendons and what-d'ye-call-'ems (for I know their names as little as thou do'st)—about it—but moreover ***——

Mrs. Wadman, who had been all the time in her arbour—instantly stopp'd her breath—unpinn'd her mob at the chin, and stood up upon one leg——

The dispute was maintained with amicable and equal force betwixt my uncle Toby and Trim for some time; till Trim at length recollecting that he had often cried at his master's sufferings, but never shed a tear at his own—was for giving up the point, which my uncle Toby would not allow———'Tis a proof of nothing, Trim, said he, but the generosity of thy temper——

So