I had a sister; she was the firstborn, and a brother who came after me.

My father died at the age of twenty-six; he got his feet wet in the snow,

took a chill, and went regularly through all the stages of inflammation.

I was three years and three months old when my father died; I remember

him, also his house, both inside and out, and the square where it stood,

at Sidmouth. But I have only one vision of these things; it is always the

same, that of the father, the house, and the square.

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