Chapter 32

—“Not choose,” quoth my father, (repeating my uncle _Toby_’s words) “to let a man come so near her!”——By Heaven, brother _Toby!_ you would try the patience of _Job_;—and I think I have the plagues of one already without it.——Why?——Where?——Wherein?——Wherefore?——Upon what account? replied my uncle _Toby_: in the utmost astonishment.—To think, said my father, of a man living to your age, brother, and knowing so little about women!——I know nothing at all about them,—replied my uncle _Toby_: And I think, continued he, t…