...heart was a good deal broken in the course of his life), she said — "My dear Laurey, I never can be yours, for I verily believe I have not long to...but I have left you every shilling of my fortune," a generosity which overpowered Sterne: she recovered: and so they were married, and grew heartily tired...

...Lawrey," she said to him one evening when he was sitting by her side, with an almost broken heart, " I can never be yours, for I verily believe I have...but I have left you every shilling of my fortune." On her recovery she consented to make two lovers unhappy, and they were married in 1741. Whatever else...