----A few children! cried my father, rising out of his chair, and looking full in my mother's face, as he forced his way betwixt her's and doctor _Slop's_--a few children! cried my father, repeating my uncle _Toby's_ words as he walk'd to and fro----

'A few children!' cried my father, rising out of his chair, and looking full in my mother's face. 'A few children!' he repeated as he walked to and fro.
