CHAPTER XXII

King _William_, said my uncle _Toby_, addressing himself to _Yorick_, was so terribly provoked at count _Solmes_ for disobeying his orders, that he would not suffer him to come into his presence for many months after. ----I fear, answered _Yorick_, the squire will be as much provoked at the corporal, as the King at the count. ----But ’twould be singularly hard in this case, continued he, if corporal _Trim_, who has behaved so diametrically opposite to count _Solmes_, should have the fate to be rewarded with the same disgrace: ----too oft in this world, do things take that train. ----I would spring a mine, cried my uncle _Toby_, rising up, ----and blow up my fortifications, and my house with them, and we would perish under their ruins, ere I would stand by and see it. ----_Trim_ directed a slight, ----but a grateful bow towards his master, ----and so the chapter ends.

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