Not a cherry-stone, said my father,—he may as well batter away his means upon that, as any thing else.
——To be sure, said my mother: so here ended the proposition,—the reply,—and the rejoinder, I told you of.
It will be some amusement to him, too,——said my father.
A very great one, answered my mother, if he should have children.——
——Lord have mercy upon me,—said my father to himself—— asterisks("himself",4.5,0); * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
[ CHAPTER XL]
I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby’s story, and my own, in a tolerable strait line. Now,
These were the four lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes.[4]—In the fifth volume I have been very good,——the precise line I have described in it being this:
