The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

-- -- But for heaven's sake, let us not talk of quarts or gallons -- -- -let us take the story straight before us; it is so nice and intricate a one, it will scarce bear the transposition of a single tittle; and, somehow or other, you have got me thrust almost into the middle of it --

-I beg we may take more care.