The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne

Volume III, Chapter 63

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WE are now going to enter upon a new scene of events.----

----Leave we then the breeches in the taylor’s hands, with my father standing over him with his cane, reading him as he sat at work a lecture upon the latus clavus, and pointing to the precise part of the waistband, where he was determined to have it sewed on.----

Leave we my mother--(truest of all the Poco-curante’s of her sex!)--careless about it, as about every thing else in the world which concerned her;--that is,--indifferent whether it was done this way or that,----provided it was but done at all.----

Leave we Slop likewise to the full profits of all my dishonours.----

Leave we poor Le Fever to recover, and get home from Marseilles as he can.----And last of all,--because the hardest of all----

Let us leave, if possible, myself:_----But ’tis impossible,--I must go along with you to the end of the work.

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