XIV + 

What a jovial and a merry world would this be, may it please your worships, but for that inextricable labyrinth of debts, cares, woes, want, grief, discontent, melancholy, large jointures, impositions, and lies! + 

Doctor Slop, like a son of a wвБ†вЄЇ, as my father called him for it,вБ†вАФto exalt himself,вБ†вАФdebased me to death,вБ†вАФand made ten thousand times more of SusannahвАЩs accident, than there was any grounds for; so that in a weekвАЩs time, or less, it was in everybodyвАЩs mouth, That poor Master Shandy * * * * * * * * entirely.вБ†вАФAnd Fame, who loves to double everything,вБ†вАФin three days more, had sworn, positively she saw it,вБ†вАФand all the world, as usual, gave credit to her evidenceвБ†вЄЇвАЬThat the nursery window had not only* * * * * * * * * * * * ;вБ†вЄЇвБ†but that * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *вАЩs also.вАЭ + 

Could the world have been sued like a body-corporate,вБ†вАФmy father had brought an action upon the case, and trounced it sufficiently; but to fall foul of individuals about itвБ†вЄЇвБ†as every soul who had mentioned the affair, did it with the greatest pity imaginable;вБ†вЄЇвАЩtwas like flying in the very face of his best friends:вБ†вЄЇвБ†And yet to acquiesce under the report, in silenceвБ†вАФwas to acknowledge it openly,вБ†вАФat least in the opinion of one half of the world; and to make a bustle again, in contradicting it,вБ†вАФwas to confirm it as strongly in the opinion of the other half.вБ†вЄї + 

вЄЇвБ†Was ever poor devil of a country gentleman so hampered? said my father. + 

I would show him publickly, said my uncle Toby, at the market cross. + 

вЄЇвАЩTwill have no effect, said my father. + 