CHAPTER XXV

’Tis a point settled, --and I mention it for the comfort of _Confucius_,[5.2] who is apt to get entangled in telling a plain story--that provided he keeps along the line of his story, --he may go backwards and forwards as he will, --’tis still held to be no digression.

This being premised, I take the benefit of the _act of going backwards_ myself.

[Footnote 5.2: Mr. _Shandy_ is supposed to mean ******** *** Esq.; member for ******, ----and not the _Chinese_ Legislator.]

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