----The corporal, whether as general or comptroller of the train, --'twas no matter, ----had done that, without which, as he imagined, the misfortune could never have happened, --_at least in_ Susannah's _hands_; ----How would your honours have behaved? 
Trim imagined that the misfortune would never have happened, but for what he had done. - How would your honours have behaved? 