I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle _Toby's_ story, and my own, in a tolerable strait line. Now,
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These were the four lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes.[6.4] --In the fifth volume I have been very good, ----the precise line I have described in it being this:
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By which it appears, that except at the curve, marked A, where I took a trip to _Navarre_, --and the indented curve _B_, which is the short airing when I was there with the Lady _Baussiere_ and her page, --I have not taken the least frisk of a digression, till _John de la Casse's_ devils led me the round you see marked D. --for as for _c c c c c_ they are nothing but parentheses, and the common _ins_ and _outs_ incident to the lives of the greatest ministers of state; and when compared with what men have done, --or with my own transgressions at the letters A B D--they vanish into nothing.

I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and have no doubt that I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby's story, and my own, in a tolerable straight line. Now,
These were the four lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes. In the fifth volume I have been very good, - the precise line I have described in it being this:
By which it appears, that except at the curve, marked A, where I took a trip to Navarre, and B, which is the short airing when I was there with the Lady Baussiere and her page, I have not taken the least frisk of a digression, till John de la Casse's devils led me the round you see marked D. As for c c c c c, they are nothing but parentheses, and the ins and outs common to the lives of the greatest ministers of state; and when compared with my transgressions at the letters A B D - they vanish into nothing.
