Here then was the time to have put a stop to this persecution against him; ------and tried an experiment at least------whether calmness and serenity of mind in your sister, with a due attention, brother _Toby_, to her evacuations and repletions------and the rest of her non-naturals, might not, in a course of nine months gestation, have set all things to rights. ------My child was bereft of these! ------What a teazing life did she lead herself, and consequently her ftus too, with that nonsensical anxiety of hers about lying-in in town? I thought my sister submitted with the greatest patience, replied my uncle _Toby_ --------I never heard her utter one fretful word about it. ------She fumed inwardly, cried my father; and that, let me tell you, brother, was ten times worse for the child--and then! what battles did she fight with me, and what perpetual storms about the midwife. ------There she gave vent, said my uncle _Toby_. ------Vent! cried my father, looking up.

'Here was the time to have tried an experiment - whether serenity of mind in my wife, with a due attention, brother Toby, to her evacuations and repletions, might not, during nine months gestation, have set all things to rights. My child was bereft of these! What a teazing life did she lead herself, and consequently her foetus too, with that nonsensical anxiety about lying-in in town?'
'I thought my sister in law submitted with the greatest patience,' replied my uncle Toby. 'I never heard her utter one fretful word about it.'
'She fumed inwardly,' cried my father; 'and that, let me tell you, was ten times worse for the child. - And then! what battles did she fight with me about the midwife!'
'There she gave vent,' said my uncle Toby.
'Vent!' cried my father. 