----"My sister, mayhap," quoth my uncle _Toby_, "does not choose to let a man come so near her ****." Make this dash, --'tis an Aposiopesis. --Take the dash away, and write _Backside_, ----'tis Bawdy. --Scratch Backside out, and put _Cover'd way_ in, 'tis a Metaphor; --and, I dare say, as fortification ran so much in my uncle _Toby's_ head, that if he had been left to have added one word to the sentence, ----that word was it.
But whether that was the case or not the case; --or whether the snapping of my father's tobacco-pipe, so critically, happened through accident or anger, will be seen in due time.
'My sister, mayhap,' quoth my uncle Toby, 'does not choose to let a man come so near her ****.' Make this row of stars, and 'tis an Aposiopesis. Take it away, and write 'Backside'; 'tis Bawdy. - Scratch 'Backside' out, and put 'Covered way' in, 'tis a Metaphor; - and, I dare say, as fortification ran so much in my uncle Toby's head, that word was the one he would have added.
But whether that was the case or no; - or whether the snapping of my father's tobacco-pipe happened through accident or anger, will be seen in due time.