The corporal had not taken his measures so badly in this stroke of artilleryship, but that he might have kept the matter entirely to himself, and left _Susannah_ to have sustained the whole weight of the attack, as she could; --true courage is not content with coming off so. ----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? ----He determined at once, not to take shelter behind _Susannah_, --but to give it; and with this resolution upon his mind, he marched upright into the parlour, to lay the whole _manuvre_ before my uncle _Toby_.

The corporal might have kept the matter entirely to himself, and left Susannah to have sustained the whole weight of blame; but true courage is not content with coming off so.
Trim imagined that the misfortune would never have happened, but for what he had done. - How would your honours have behaved? He determined not to take shelter behind Susannah, but to give it; and with this resolution, he marched upright into the parlour, to lay the whole manoeuvre before my uncle Toby.
