* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ; so that the whole went heavily on with my uncle _Toby_; insomuch, that it was not within three full months, after he and the corporal had constructed the town, and put it in a condition to be destroyed, that the several commandants, commissaries, deputies, negociators, and intendants, would permit him to set about it. 
 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - it was three full months after my uncle Toby and the corporal had constructed the town, ready to be destroyed, that the commandants, deputies and negotiators would permit him to do so.
