Chapter 22

My father, I believe, had the truest love and tenderness for my uncle _Toby_, that ever one brother bore towards another, and would have done any thing in nature, which one brother in reason could have desir’d of another, to have made my uncle _Toby_’s heart easy in this, or any other point. But this lay out of his power. ——My father, as I told you was a philosopher in grain,—speculative,—systematical;—and my aunt _Dinah_’s affair was a matter of as much consequence to him, as the retrogradation of the planets to _…