ay-by-the-bye

Updated: July 10, 2026

I could not conceive why Brough was reading me this lecture about debt and my having bought the diamond-pin, as I knew that he had been asking about it already, and how I came by it Abednego told me so. "Why, sir," says I, "Mr. Abednego told me that he had told you that I had told him " "Oh, ay-by-the-bye, now I recollect, Mr.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond