The fifteenth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it but a sad signature of "How our pleasures slip from under us in this world!"
For in talking of my digression ----I declare before heaven I have made it! What a strange creature is mortal man! said she.
'Tis very true, said I----but 'twere better to get all these things out of our heads, and return to my uncle _Toby_.
The fifteenth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it a sad example of 'How our pleasures slip from under us in this world!'
For in talking of my digression - I declare before heaven I have made it! What a strange creature is mortal man!
Better get all these things out of our heads, and return to my uncle Toby.
Book 9 - Chapter 15