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вЄЇвАЩTwas nothing,вБ†вАФI did not lose two drops of blood by itвБ†вЄЇвЄЇвАЩtwas not worth calling in a surgeon, had he lived next door to usвБ†вЄЇвБ†thousands suffer by choice, what I did by accident.вБ†вЄЇвБ†Doctor Slop made ten times more of it, than there was occasion:вБ†вЄЇвБ†some men rise, by the art of hanging great weights upon small wires,вБ†вАФand I am this day (August the 10th, 1761) paying part of the price of this manвАЩs reputation.вБ†вЄЇвБ†O вАЩtwould provoke a stone, to see how things are carried on in this world!вБ†вЄЇвБ†The chambermaid had left no ******* *** under the bed:вБ†вЄЇвБ†Cannot you contrive, master, quoth Susannah, lifting up the sash with one hand, as she spoke, and helping me up into the window-seat with the other,вБ†вАФcannot you manage, my dear, for a single time, to **** *** ** *** ******?
I was five years old.вБ†вЄЇвБ†Susannah did not consider that nothing was well hung in our family,вБ†вЄЇвБ†so slap came the sash down like lightning upon us;вБ†вАФNothing is left,вБ†вАФcried Susannah,вБ†вАФnothing is leftвБ†вАФfor me, but to run my country.вБ†вЄЇвБ†
My uncle TobyвАЩs house was a much kinder sanctuary; and so Susannah fled to it.