----I thought so, by heaven! cried my father, interrupting him ----Saint _Optat!_----how should Saint _Optat_ fail? so snatching out his pocket-book, and the young _Benedictine_ holding him the torch as he wrote, he set it down as a new prop to his system of Christian names, and I will be bold to say, so disinterested was he in the search of truth, that had he found a treasure in Saint _Optat's_ tomb, it would not have made him half so rich: 'Twas as successful a short visit as ever was paid to the dead; and so highly was his fancy pleas'd with all that had passed in it, --that he determined at once to stay another day in _Auxerre_.
--I'll see the rest of these good gentry to-morrow, said my father, as we cross'd over the square --And while you are paying that visit, brother _Shandy_, quoth my uncle _Toby_--the corporal and I will mount the ramparts.
'I thought so, by heaven!' cried my father, interrupting him. 'Saint Optat!' and snatching out his pocket-book, he wrote it down as a new prop to his system of christian names. I will be so bold as to say that even if he had found a treasure in Saint Optat's tomb, it would not have made him half so rich. 'Twas as successful a visit as ever was paid to the dead; and so pleased was my father that he determined at once to stay another day in Auxerre.
'I'll see the rest of these good gentry to-morrow,' said my father, as we crossed the square.
'And while you are paying that visit, brother,' quoth my uncle Toby, 'the corporal and I will mount the ramparts.'