that I can do this in spite of their reverences--the
occasion is lost--for thou art gone;--thy genius fled up to the stars
from whence it came;--and that warm heart of thine, with all its
generous and open vessels, compressed into a clod of the valley!

--But what--what is this, to that future and dreaded page, where I look
towards the velvet pall, decorated with the military ensigns of thy
master--the first--the foremost of created beings;--where, I shall see
thee, faithful servant! laying his sword and scabbard with a trembling
hand across his coffin, and then returning pale as ashes to the door,
to take his mourning horse by the bridle, to follow his hearse, as he
directed thee;--where--all my father's systems shall be baffled by his
sorrows; and, in spite of his philosophy, I shall behold him, as he
inspects the lackered plate, twice taking his spectacles from off his
nose, to wipe away the dew which nature has shed upon them--When I see
him cast in the rosemary with an air of disconsolation, which cries
through my ears,--O Toby! in what corner of the world shall I seek thy
fellow?

--Gracious powers! which erst have opened the lips of the dumb in his
distress, and made the tongue of the stammerer speak plain--when I shall
arrive at this dreaded page, deal not with me, then, with a stinted
hand.

Chapter 3.LXIX.

The corporal, who the night before had resolved in his mind to supply
the grand desideratum, of keeping up something like an incessant firing
upon the enemy during the heat of the attack,--had no further idea in
his fancy at that time, than a contrivance of smoking tobacco against
the town, out of one of my uncle Toby's six field-pieces, which were
planted on each side of his sentry-box; the means of effecting which
occurring to his fancy at the same time, though he had pledged his cap,
he thought it in no danger from the miscarriage of his projects.

Upon turning it this way, and that, a little in his mind, he soon began
to find out, that by means of his two Turkish tobacco-pipes, with the
supplement of three smaller tubes of wash-leather at each of their
lower ends, to be tagg'd by the same number of tin-pipes fitted to
the touch-holes, and sealed with clay next the cannon, and then tied
hermetically with waxed silk at their several insertions into the
Morocco tube,--he should be able to fire the six field-pieces all
together, and with the same ease as to fire one.--

--Let no man say from wha