I will have him, continued my father, chearful, facet, jovial; at the same time, prudent, attentive to business, vigilant, acute, argute, inventive, quick in resolving doubts and speculative questions; ----he shall be wise, and judicious, and learned: ----And why not humble, and moderate, and gentle-tempered, and good? said _Yorick_: ----And why not, cried my uncle _Toby_, free, and generous, and bountiful, and brave? ----He shall, my dear _Toby_, replied my father, getting up and shaking him by the hand. --Then, brother _Shandy_, answered my uncle _Toby_, raising himself off the chair, and laying down his pipe to take hold of my father's other hand, --I humbly beg I may recommend poor _Le Fever's_ son to you; ----a tear of joy of the first water sparkled in my uncle _Toby's_ eye, and another, the fellow to it, in the corporal's, as the proposition was made; ----you will see why when you read _Le Fever's_ story: ----fool that I was! nor can I recollect (nor perhaps you) without turning back to the place, what it was that hindered me from letting the corporal tell it in his own words; --but the occasion is lost, --I must tell it now in my own.
[Footnote 6.3: Vid. _Pellegrina_.]
'I will have him,' continued my father, 'cheerful and jovial; at the same time, prudent, vigilant, acute, inventive, quick in resolving doubts; - he shall be wise, judicious, and learned.'
'And why not humble, and moderate, and gentle-tempered and good?' said Yorick.
'And why not,' cried my uncle Toby, 'generous, and bountiful, and brave?'
'He shall be, my dear Toby,' replied my father, getting up to shake his hand.
'Then, brother Shandy,' answered my uncle, 'I humbly beg to recommend poor Le Fever's son to you.' A tear of joy sparkled in my uncle Toby's eye, and another in the corporal's, as the proposition was made - you will see why when you read Le Fever's story. - Fool that I am! I cannot recollect what it was that hindered me from letting the corporal tell it in his own words; but I must tell it now in my own.