' -- 'And why were not these tokens
produced before?' 'My mother told me she had wrote to
Glamorganshire, at the time of my birth, but had no answer; and
that afterwards, when she made enquiry, there was no such person
in that county.' 'And so in consequence of my changing my name
and going abroad at that very time, thy poor mother and thou have
been left to want and misery -- I am really shocked at the
consequence of my own folly.' -- Then, laying his hand on Clinker's
head, he added, 'Stand forth, Matthew Loyd -- You see, gentlemen,
how the sins of my youth rise up in judgment against me -- Here is
my direction written with my own hand, and a seal which I left at
the woman's request; and this is a certificate of the child's
baptism, signed by the curate of the parish.' The company were
not a little surprised at this discovery, upon which Mr Dennison
facetiously congratulated both the father and the son: for my
part, I shook my new-found cousin heartily by the hand, and
Lismahago complimented him with the tears in his eyes, for he had
been hopping about the room, swearing in broad Scotch, and
bellowing with the pain occasioned by the fall of the coalscuttle
upon his foot.
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