XXXII + 

Well! dear brother Toby, said my father, upon his first seeing him after he fell in loveвБ†вАФand how goes it with your Asse? + 

Now my uncle Toby thinking more of the part where he had had the blister, than of HilarionвАЩs metaphorвБ†вАФand our preconceptions having (you know) as great a power over the sounds of words as the shapes of things, he had imagined, that my father, who was not very ceremonious in his choice of words, had enquired after the part by its proper name; so notwithstanding my mother, doctor Slop, and Mr.¬†Yorick, were sitting in the parlour, he thought it rather civil to conform to the term my father had made use of than not. When a man is hemmвАЩd in by two indecorums, and must commit one of вАЩemвБ†вАФI always observeвБ†вАФlet him choose which he will, the world will blame himвБ†вАФso I should not be astonished if it blames my uncle Toby. + 

My AвБ†вЄЇвБ†e, quoth my uncle Toby, is much betterвБ†вАФbrother ShandyвБ†вАФMy father had formed great expectations from his Asse in this onset; and would have brought him on again; but doctor Slop setting up an intemperate laughвБ†вАФand my mother crying out LвБ†вЄЇ bless us!вБ†вАФit drove my fatherвАЩs Asse off the fieldвБ†вАФand the laugh then becoming generalвБ†вАФthere was no bringing him back to the charge, for some timeвБ†вЄЇвБ† + 

And so the discourse went on without him. + 

Everybody, said my mother, says you are in love, brother Toby,вБ†вАФand we hope it is true. + 

I am as much in love, sister, I believe, replied my uncle Toby, as any man usually isвБ†вЄЇвБ†Humph! said my fatherвБ†вЄЇвБ†and when did you know it? quoth my motherвБ†вЄЇвБ† + 

вЄЇвБ†When the blister broke; replied my uncle Toby. + 

My uncle TobyвАЩs reply put my father into good temperвБ†вАФso he chargвАЩd oвАЩ foot. + 