Lefevre

( Lieutenant ), a poor officer dying from want and sickne . His pathetic story is told by Sterne, in a novel called The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759). “Mr. Fulmer, I have borrowed a book from your shop. ’Tis the sixth volume of my deceased friend, Tristram.... The divine story of Lefevre, which makes part of this book,... does honor, not to its author only, but to human nature.”—Cumber land, The West Indian , ii. 1.