When my uncle _Toby_ had said this, he did not care to say it again; so casting his eye upon the Bible which Mrs. _Wadman_ had laid upon the table, he took it up; and popping, dear soul! upon a passage in it, of all others the most interesting to him--which was the siege of _Jericho_--he set himself to read it over--leaving his proposal of marriage, as he had done his declaration of love, to work with her after its own way. Now it wrought neither as an astringent or a loosener; nor like opium, or bark, or mercury, or buckthorn, or any one drug which nature had bestowed upon the world--in short, it work'd not at all in her; and the cause of that was, that there was something working there before ----Babbler that I am! I have anticipated what it was a dozen times; but there is fire still in the subject----allons.
When my uncle Toby had said this, he did not care to say it again; so casting his eye upon the Bible which Mrs. Wadman had laid upon the table, he took it up; and popping, dear soul! upon a passage in it which was most interesting to him - the siege of Jericho - he began to read it - leaving his proposal of marriage, like his declaration of love, to work with her after its own way.
But it worked not at all in her; because there was something working there before - Babbler that I am! I have anticipated what it was a dozen times; but there is fire still in the subject. - Allons.