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. ----My father, in turning his eyes, was struck with such a gleam of sunshine in his face, as melted down the sullenness of his grief in a moment.

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. My father, in turning his eyes, was struck with such a gleam of sunshine in his face, as melted the sullenness of his grief in a moment.
