Now whether the compression shortened my uncle _Toby's_ face into a more pleasurable oval--or that the philanthropy of his heart, in seeing his brother beginning to emerge out of the sea of his afflictions, had braced up his muscles----so that the compression upon his chin only doubled the benignity which was there before, is not hard to decide. 
Now whether the compression shortened my uncle Toby's face into a more pleasurable oval - or whether the philanthropy of his heart braced up his muscles, doubling the benignity which was there before, is not hard to decide. 