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She died in 1805, when her youngest child Alethea was born, and her husband did not marry again. In the early years of the century five little children and a couple of nurses began to make periodical visits to Paleham.
George's visits to Paleham were never long, for the distance from London was under fifty miles and there was a direct coach, so that the journey was easy; there was not time, therefore, for the novelty to wear off either on the part of the young man or of his parents.
A few white locks hung about his ears, his shoulders were bent and his knees feeble, but he was still hale, and was much respected in our little world of Paleham. His name was Pontifex. His wife was said to be his master; I have been told she brought him a little money, but it cannot have been much.
He is a successful man; but his father, hobbling about Paleham Street in his grey worsted stockings, broad brimmed hat and brown swallow-tailed coat was worth a hundred of George Pontifexes, for all his carriages and horses and the airs he gives himself." "But yet," he added, "George Pontifex is no fool either."
If there had been a dozen doles afterwards we should not have deigned to touch one of them. George Pontifex put up a monument to his parents, a plain slab in Paleham church, inscribed with the following epitaph: In a year or two more came Waterloo and the European peace. Then Mr George Pontifex went abroad more than once.
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