Page:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Volume 7).pdf/102

 tomb of St. Heribald—This, said the sacristan, laying his hand upon the tomb, was a renowned prince of the house of Bavaria, who under the successive reigns of Charlemagne, Louis le Debonair, and Charles the Bald, bore a great sway in the government, and had a principal hand in bringing every thing into order and discipline

Then he has been as great, said my uncle, in the field, as in the cabinetI dare say he has been a gallant soldierHe was a monk—said the sacristan.

My uncle Toby and Trim sought comfort in each others faces—but found it not: my father clapp'd both his hands upon his cod-piece, which was a way he had when any thing hugely tickled