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When Dr. Slop entered the back parlour, where my father and my uncle Toby were discoursing upon the nature of women, -- -- -it was hard to determine whether Dr. Slop's figure, or Dr. Slop's presence, occasioned more surprise to them; for as the accident happened so near the house, as not to make it worth while for Obadiah to remount him, -- -- -Obadiah had led him in as he was, unwiped, unappointed, unannealed, with all his stains and blotches on him.
-- He stood like Hamlet's ghost, motionless and speechless, for a full minute and a half at the parlour-door (Obadiah still holding his hand) with all the majesty of mud. His hinder parts, upon which he had received his fall, totally besmeared, -- -- -and in every other part of him, blotched over in such a manner with Obadiah's explosion, that you would have sworn (without mental reservation) that every grain of it had taken effect.