——’TWAS nothing,—I did not lose two drops of blood by it——’twas not
worth calling in a surgeon, had he lived next door to us——thousands
suffer by choice, what I did by accident.——Doctor _Slop_ made ten times
more of it, than there was occasion:——some men rise, by the art of
hanging great weights upon small wires,—and I am this day (_August_ the
10th, 1761) paying part of the price of this man’s reputation.——O
’twould provoke a stone, to see how things are carried on in this
world!——The chamber-maid had left no ******* *** under the bed:——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,—cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time, to **** *** **
*** ****** ?
I was five years old.——_Susannah_ did not consider that nothing was
well hung in our family,——so slap came the sash down like lightning
upon us;—Nothing is left,—cried _Susannah_,—nothing is left—for me, but
to run my country.——
My uncle _Toby_’s house was a much kinder sanctuary; and so _Susannah_
fled to it.