Now it appears by a memorandum in my father’s pocketbook, which now lies upon the table, “That on Lady-day , which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,⸺my father set out upon his journey to London , with my eldest brother Bobby , to fix him at Westminster school;” and, as it appears from the same authority, “That he did not get down to his wife and family till the second week in May following,”—it brings the thing almost to a certainty. However, what follows in the beginning of the next chapter, puts it beyond all possibility of doubt.
⸻But pray, Sir, What was your father doing all December , January , and February? ⸺Why, Madam,—he was all that time afflicted with a Sciatica.