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 quoth my father to himself,—if ever I insult this worthy soul more.

draw-bridge being held irreparable, Trim was ordered directly to set about another,—but not upon the same model; for cardinal Alberoni's intrigues at that time being discovered, and my uncle Toby rightly foreseeing that a flame would inevitably break out betwixt Spain and the Empire, and that the operations of the ensuing campaign must in all likelihood be either in Naples or Scicily,—he determined upon an Italian bridge,—(my uncle Toby, by the bye, was not far out in his conjectures)—but my father, who was infinitely the better politician, and took the lead as far of my uncle Toby in the cabinet, as my