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 epithet—Was he unfortunate then, Trim? said my uncle Toby, pathetically—The corporal, wishing first the word and all its synonimas at the devil, forthwith began to run back in his mind, the principal events in the King of Bohemia's story; from every one of which, it appearing that he was the most fortunate man that ever existed in the worldit put the corporal to a stand: for not caring to retract his epithetand less, to explain it—and least of all, to twist his tale (like men of lore) to serve a system—he looked up in my uncle Toby's face for assistancebut seeing it was the very thing, my uncle Toby sat in expectation of himselfafter a hum and a haw, he went on