exactly to his mind⸺my uncle Toby said nothing at all; and the corporal finished his story.
As Tom perceived, an’ please your honour, that he gained ground, and that all he had said upon the subject of sausages was kindly taken, he went on to help her a little in making them.⸺First, by taking hold of the ring of the sausage whilst she stroked the forced meat down with her hand⸺then by cutting the strings into proper lengths, and holding them in his hand, whilst she took them out one by one⸺then, by putting them across her mouth, that she might take them out as she wanted them⸺and so on from little to more, till at last he adventured to tie the sausage himself, whilst she held the snout.⸺
⸺Now a widow, an’ please your honour, always chooses a second husband as unlike the first as she can: so the affair was more than half settled in her mind before Tom mentioned it.
She made a feint however of defending herself, by snatching up a sausage:⸺ Tom instantly laid hold of another⸻
But seeing Tom’s had more gristle in it⸻
She signed the capitulation⸺and Tom sealed it; and there was an end of the matter.