The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 9/Chapter 15

by Laurence Sterne

CHAP. XV.

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.