Book 9 — CHAPTER XV
Reading edition · Edition 2
The fifteenth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it but a sad signature of “How our pleasures slip from under us in this world!”
For in talking of my digression——I declare before heaven I have made it! What a strange creature is mortal man! said she.
’Tis very true, said I——but ’twere better to get all these things out of our heads, and return to my uncle Toby.