Your honour, said _Trim_, shutting the parlour-door before he began to speak, has heard, I imagine, of this unlucky accident ----O yes, _Trim_, said my uncle _Toby_, and it gives me great concern. --I am heartily concerned too, but I hope your honour, replied _Trim_, will do me the justice to believe, that it was not in the least owing to me. ----To thee--_Trim?_ --cried my uncle _Toby_, looking kindly in his face------'twas _Susannah's_ and the curate's folly betwixt them. ------What business could they have together, an' please your honour, in the garden? ----In the gallery thou meanest, replied my uncle _Toby_.
_Trim_ found he was upon a wrong scent, and stopped short with a low bow ----Two misfortunes, quoth the corporal to himself, are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time; ----the mischief the cow has done in breaking into the fortifications, may be told his honour hereafter. ----_Trim's_ casuistry and address, under the cover of his low bow, prevented all suspicion in my uncle _Toby_, so he went on with what he had to say to _Trim_ as follows:

'Your honour,' said Trim, shutting the parlour-door, 'has heard, I imagine, of the unlucky accident?'
'O yes, Trim,' said my uncle Toby, 'and it gives me great concern.'
'I am heartily concerned too,' replied Trim, 'but I hope your honour will believe that it was not in the least owing to me.'
'To thee, Trim?' cried my uncle Toby kindly. ''Twas Susannah's and the curate's folly betwixt them.'
'What business could they have together in the garden?'
'In the gallery, thou meanest,' replied my uncle.
Trim found he was upon a wrong scent, and stopped short. Two misfortunes, quoth he to himself, are twice as many as are needed now; - the mischief the cow has done in breaking into the fortifications, may be told to his honour later.
My uncle Toby, free of all suspicion, went on:
