When I went up, continued the corporal, into the lieutenant's room, which I did not do till the expiration of the ten minutes, --he was lying in his bed with his head raised upon his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and a clean white cambrick handkerchief beside it: ----The youth was just stooping down to take up the cushion, upon which I supposed he had been kneeling, --the book was laid upon the bed, --and, as he rose, in taking up the cushion with one hand, he reached out his other to take it away at the same time. ----Let it remain there, my dear, said the lieutenant.
He did not offer to speak to me, till I had walked up close to his bed-side: --If you are captain _Shandy's_ servant, said he, you must present my thanks to your master, with my little boy's thanks along with them, for his courtesy to me; --if he was of _Leven's_--said the lieutenant. --I told him your honour was --Then, said he, I served three campaigns with him in _Flanders_, and remember him, --but 'tis most likely, as I had not the honour of any acquaintance with him, that he knows nothing of me. ----You will tell him, however, that the person his good-nature has laid under obligations to him, is one _Le Fever_, a lieutenant in _Angus's_----but he knows me not, --said he, a second time, musing; ----possibly he may my story--added he--pray tell the captain, I was the ensign at _Breda_, whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musket-shot, as she lay in my arms in my tent. ----I remember the story, an't please your honour, said I, very well. ----Do you so? said he, wiping his eyes with his handkerchief, --then well may I. --In saying this, he drew a little ring out of his bosom, which seemed tied with a black ribband about his neck, and kiss'd it twice ----Here, _Billy_, said he, ----the boy flew across the room to the bed-side, --and falling down upon his knee, took the ring in his hand, and kissed it too, --then kissed his father, and sat down upon the bed and wept.
I wish, said my uncle _Toby_, with a deep sigh, --I wish, _Trim_, I was asleep.

'When I went up,' continued the corporal, 'into the lieutenant's room, he was lying in his bed: the youth was just taking up the cushion, upon which I supposed he had been kneeling.
'When I walked up to his bed-side, the lieutenant said to me: "If you are captain Shandy's servant, present my thanks to your master, with my little boy's thanks too. If he was of Leven's regiment" - I told him your honour was - "Then," said he, "I served three campaigns with him in Flanders, and remember him, but 'tis most likely that he knows nothing of me. My name is Le Fever, a lieutenant in Angus's; possibly he may know my story. Pray tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda, whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musket-shot, as she lay in my arms in my tent."
'"I remember the story very well," said I.
'"Do you?" said he, wiping his eyes; and drawing out a little ring tied with a black ribbon about his neck, he kissed it twice.
'"Here, Billy," said he. The boy flew across the room to the bed-side, and falling on his knee, took the ring in his hand, kissed his father, and then sat down upon the bed and wept.'
