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 he never once was able to step into the coach, or out of it, without turning round to take a view of the arms, and making a vow at the same time, that it was the last time he would ever set his foot in it again, till the bend-sinister was taken out—but like the affair of the hinge, it was one of the many things which the Destinies had set down in their books—ever to be grumbled at (and in wiser families than ours)—but never to be mended.

—Has the bend-sinister been brush'd out, I say? said my father—There has been nothing brush'd out, Sir, answered Obadiah, but the lining. We'll go o'horse-back, said my father, turning to Yorick—Of all things in the world, except politicks, the clergy know the least of heraldry, said Yorick—No matter for