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 discontent, melancholy, large jointures, impositions, and lies!

Doctor Slop, like a son of a w, as my father called him for it,—to exalt himself,—debased me to death,—and made ten thousand times more of Susannah's accident, than there was any grounds for; so that in a week's time, or less, it was in every body's mouth, That poor Master Shandy ************ entirely.—And, who loves to double every thing,—in three days more, had sworn positively she saw it,—and all the world, as usual, gave credit to her evidence—"That the nursery window had now only ************************ ;—but that ******************** 's also."