ABSTRACT
I was taken to her father’s house, and when I entered the child was in the cradle asleep. I took Malilia in my arms, and kissed her. She said: “Mr John”, in Spanish, and fell down dead and lay for one hour. The house filled in a f few minutes with people, and I had her in my arms. When she came to herself, she took me round the neck, and fainted away again. She soon recovered. “My child’s father! my dear child! He was born the first of March, and is four months old.” I took her to the hotel with me, and the child in her arms. An hundred people came to see us. I was satisfied the child was my own, and that she had never known any other man. I asked her if she would go to England with me. She said, with all her heart, and all her friends were agreeable if I would many her. I sent for a priest, and was married directly. She was very merry. Next day a hundred people came to see us go away. She was eighteen years of age, and I thirty-eight. I hired a chaise to take her to Aranjuez and Madrid, as I thought we should stay some days there. We arrived at Aranjuez at dinner, and put up at the hôtel I was at with Sir John Stuart. As the King was at the Escurial, my master went to see what was worth seeing, and set out next day for Madrid, where we stopped two days. I made an agreement with the chaise-driver to take my wife to Toledo, and then to the English hôtel at Lisbon, and I sent a letter to Mr Dewar, the landlord of the same, to get her a passage for England, and to come to me in London, to Berwick Street, Soho.
