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вАЬIt is with Love as with CuckoldomвАЭвБ†вЄЇвБ†the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows anything about the matter: this comes, as all the world knows, from having half a dozen words for one thing; and so long, as what in this vessel of the human frame, is LoveвБ†вАФmay be Hatred, in thatвБ†вЄЇвБ†Sentiment half a yard higherвБ†вЄЇвБ†and NonsenseвБ†вЄЇвБ†вЄїno, Madam,вБ†вАФnot thereвБ†вЄЇвБ†I mean at the part I am now pointing to with my forefingerвБ†вЄЇвБ†how can we help ourselves?

Of all mortal, and immortal men too, if you please, who ever soliloquized upon this mystic subject, my uncle Toby was the worst fitted, to have pushвАЩd his researches, throвАЩ such a contention of feelings; and he had infallibly let them all run on, as we do worse matters, to see what they would turn outвБ†вЄЇвБ†had not BridgetвАЩs pre-notification of them to Susannah, and SusannahвАЩs repeated manifestoes thereupon to all the world, made it necessary for my uncle Toby to look into the affair.