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Chapter 28 It is with Love as with Cuckoldomthe suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any thing about the matter: this comes, as all the world knows, from having half a dozen words for one thing; and so long, as what in this vessel of the human frame, is Lovemay be Hatred, in thatSentiment half a yard higherand Nonsense no, Madam,not thereI mean at the part I am now pointing to with my forefingerhow can we help ourselves? Of all mortal, and immortal men too, if you please, who ever soliloquized upon this mystic subject, my uncle Toby was the worst fitted, to have pushd his researches, thro such a contention of feelings; and he had infallibly let them all run on, as we do worse matters, to see what they would turn outhad not Bridgets pre-notification of them to Susannah, and Susannahs repeated manifestoes thereupon to all the world, made it necessary for my uncle Toby to look into the affair. |
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