Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-09-17

was lylng m ms bed, with hls head raised up- on his hand, with his elbow upon the pillow, and clean white cambric handkerchief be- side it:-The youth was just stepping down to take up the cushion, upon which, supposed, he had been kneeling;-the book was laid up- on the bed,-and as he rose, in taking up the cushion with one hand, he reached out his other to take it away at the same time-Let it remain there, my dear, said the lieutenant.
 He did not offer to speak to me, till had walked up close to the bedside you are captain Shandy's servant, said he, you must present my thanks to your master, with my little boys thanks along with them, for his courtesy to me.-If he was of Leven's-said he leutenant-I told him your honor was Then, said he, served three campaigns with lim in Flanders, and remember him;-but tis most likely, as I had not the honor of any acquaintance with him, that he knows mo- thing of me-You will tell him, however, that the person his good nature has laid under obli- gations to him, is one Le Fevre, lieutenant in Angues's:-But he knows me not-said he, Ia second time, musing:-Possibly he may my story, added he-Pray tell the captain, was the ensign at Breda, whose wife was most un- fortunately killed with musket-shot, as she lay in my arms in my tent-I remember the story, am please your honor, said l, very well. Do you so?--said he, wiping his eyes with his handkerchief, then well may I.-In say fig this, he drew little ring out of his bosom, which seemed tied with black riband about hs neck, and he kiss'd it ce,-Here Billy, slid he;-the boy flew across the room to the bedside-and falling down upon his knee, tsok the ring into his hand, and kissed it too, then kissed his father, and sat down upon tie bed and wept.
 wish, said my uncle Toby, with deep sgh-I wish, Trim, was asleep.
 Your honor, replied the Corporal, is too much concerned;-shall pour your honor out a glass of sack to your pipe?-Do, Trim, said my uncle Toby.
 remember said my uncle Toby -sighing again, the story of the ensign and his wife, with circumstance his modesty omitted d- and particularly well that he, as well as she, upon some account or other, q forget what) was universally pitied by the whole regiment; but finish the story thou art upon:-'Tis finished already, said the Corporal, flor could stay no longer,- wished his honor a goodnight: Young Le Fevre rose from off the bed, and saw me to the bottom of the stairs; and as we went down together, told me, they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to jon the regiment in Flanders -But, alas! said the Corporal, ,-the lieu tenants last days march is ovcr.-Then what is to become of his poor boy cried my uncle Toby.
 It was my uncle Toby's eternal honor- tho tell it only for the sake of those who, when coop'd in betwixt a natural and posi- tive law, know not, for their souls, which way in inc world to turn themselves-That not ,,ycla 1NCbx, gagged at the time in carrying on the siege of pressed theirs on so vigorously, that they scarce allowed him time to get his dnner,- that nevertheless he gave up Dendermond, tho he had already made a Judgement upon the counterscrap, and bent his whole thoughts towards the private distresses at the inn; and except that he ordered the garden gate to be bolted up, by which he might be said to have turned the siege of Dendermond into block ade-he left Dendermond to itself-to be re- lieved or not by the French king, as the French king thought good; and only consider ed how himself should relieve the poor lieu tenant and his son.
 That kind Being, who is friend to the friendless, shall rccompense thee for this.
 Thou hast left this matter short, said my uncle Toby to the Corporal, as he was putting him to bed, and will tell thee in what, Trim In the first place, when thou madest an of- fer of my services to Le Fevre,-as sickness and travelling are both expensive, and thou knewest he was but poor lieutenant, with a son to subsist, as well as himself, out of his pay,-that thou didst not make an offer to him of my purse; because, had he stood in need, thou knowest, Trim, he had been as welcome to it as myself-Your honor knows, said the Corporal, had no orders:-True, quoth my uncle Toby-thou didst very right Trim, as soldler,-but certainly very wrong as man.
 In the second place, for which, indeed, thou hast the same excuse, continued my uncle Toby,-when thou offcredst hlm whatever was in my house, should'st have offer ed him my house too:-A sick brother off, Ger should have the best quarters, Trim; and if we had him with us,-we could tend and look to him: m:-Thou art an excellent nurse myself, Trim, and, what with thy care of him, and the old woman's, and his boys, and mine together, we might recruit him again at once, and set him upon his legs
 -In fortnight or three weeks, added my uncle Toby, smiling-he might march He will never march, an please your honor, in the world, said the Corporal- will march; sand my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed, with one shoe off, An'please your honor, said the Corporal, he will never march, but to his grave:--He shall march, cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had shoe on, though without ad- vancing an inch,-he shall march to his regi- ment-He cannot stand it, said the Corpo- ral-He shall be supported, said my uncle Toby-He1l drop at last, said the Corporal, and what will become of his boys He shall not drop, said my uncle Toby, firmly A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point-the poor soul will die.-He shall not die, by G., cried my uncle Toby.
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