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 compared with what men have done,—or with my own transgressions at the letters A B D—they vanish into nothing.

In this last volume I have done better still—for from the end of Le Fevers episode, to the beginning of my uncle Tobys campaigns,—I have scarce stepped a yard out of my way.

If I mend at his rate, it is not impossibleby the good leave of his grace of Benevento's devilsbut I may arrive hereafter at the excellency of going on even thus;

which is a line drawn as straight as I could draw it, by a writing-master's ruler, (borrowed for that purpose) turning neither to the right hand or to the left.