fuperadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take fhelter under him ; fo that before my uncle Toby had half finished the kind offers he was making to the father, had the fon infenfibly pressed up close to his knees, and had taken hold of the breast of his coat, and was pulling it towards him.-The blood and fpirits of Le Fever, which were waxing cold and flow within him, and were retreating to their laft citadel, the heart,rallied back, the film forfook his eyes for a moment, he looked up wifhfully in my uncle Toby's face, then cast a look upon his boy,—and that ligament, fine as it was, was never broken.

Nature instantly ebb'd again,—the film returned to its place, the pulfe fluttered-stopp'd-went on-throbb'd-ftopp'd again-moved-flopp'dfhall I go on?—No.

All that is neceffary to be added is as follows

That my uncle Toby, with young Le Fever in his hand, attended the poor Lieutenant, as chief mourners, to his grave.

When my uncle Toby had turned every thing into money, and fettled all accounts betwixt the

agent

agent of the regiment and Le Fever, and betwixt

Le Fever and all mankind, there remained no

thing more in my uncle Toby's hands, than an old regimental coat and a fword; fo that my uncle Toby found little or no oppofition from the world in taking adminiftration. The coat my uncle Toby gave the Corporal ;-Wear it, Trim, faid my uncle Toby as long as it will hold together, for the fake of the poor Lieutenant-And this, faid my uncle Toby, taking up the fword in his hand, and drawing it out of the scabbard as he spoke-and this, Le Fever, I'll fave for thee-'tis all the fortune, continued my uncle Toby, hanging it up upon a crook, and pointing to it,-'tis all the fortune, my dear Le Fever, which God has left thee; but if he has given thee a heart to fight thy way with it in the world, and thou doeft it like a man of honour,'tis enough for us.

As foon as my uncle Toby had laid a foundation, he fent him to a public fchool, where, excepting Whitfuntide and Christmas, at which times the Corporal was punctually dispatched for him, he remained to the fpring of the year, feventeen; when the stories of the Emperor's fending his army into Hungary against the Turks, kindling a spark of fire in his bofom, he left his Greek and Latin

without

without leave, and throwing himself upon his knees before my uncle Toby, begged his father's fword, and my uncle Toby's leave along with it, to go and try his fortune under Eugene.-Twice did my uncle Toby forget his wound, and cry out, Le Fever! I will go with thee, and thou fhalt fight beside me-And twice he laid his hand upon his groin, and hung down his head in forrow and difconfolation.—

My uncle Toby took down the fword from the crook, where it had hung untouched ever fince the Lieutenant's death, and delivered it to the Corporal to brighten up;--and having detained Le Fever a fingle fortnight to equip him, and contract for his paffage to Leghorn, he put the fword into his hand,-If thou art brave, Le Fever, faid my uncle Toby, this will not fail thee,-but Fortune, faid he, (musing a little)-Fortune may-And if she does,-added my uncle Toby, embracing him, come back again to me, Le Fever, and we will shape thee another courfe.

The greatest injury could not have oppreffed the heart of Le Fever more than my uncle Toby's paternal kindness;-he parted from my uncle Toby, as the beft of fons from the beft of fathers-both dropped tears and as my uncle Toby gave him

his laft kifs, he flipped fixty guineas, tied up in an old purse of his father's, in which was his mother's ring, into his hand,-and bid God bless him.

Le Fever got up to the Imperial army just time enough to try what metal his fword was made of, at the defeat of the Turks before Belgrade; but a feries of unmerited mifchances had purfued him from that moment, and trod close upon his heels for four years together after: he had withstood thefe buffetings to the laft, till ficknefs overtook him at Marseilles, from whence he wrote my uncle Toby word, he had loft his time, his fervices, his health, and, in short, every thing but his fword;and was waiting for the first fhip to return back to him

Le Fever was hourly expected; and was uppermoft in my uncle Toby's mind all the time my father was giving him and Yorick a description of what kind of a perfon he would choose for a preceptor to me but as my uncle Toby thought my father at first fomewhat fanciful in the accomplishments he required, he forbore mentioning Le Fever's name,-till the character, by Yorick's interpofition, ending unexpectedly, in one, who should be gentle tempered, and generous, and good, it impreffed

preffed the image of Le Fever, and his intereft upon my uncle Toby fo forcibly, he rofe instantly off his chair; and laying down his pipe, in order to take hold of both my father's hands-I beg, brother Shandy, faid my uncle Toby, I may recommend poor Le Fever's fon to you-I befeech you, do, added Yorick-He has a good heart, faid my uncle Toby And a brave one too, an' please your honour, faid the Corporal.

-The beft hearts, Trim, are ever the bravest, replied my uncle Toby.

T. SHANDY. VOL. III. CHAP.49.

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