Sentence:  For, as it regards myself, I confess, with humility, that in the earliest stage of my career I was the <WSD>uphanded</WSD> wonder of gossips even at my christening, and though only a few months old, (I was born in the longest day), I was considered a child of larger growth than any other of equal age, which made the vicar exclaim -- "Quae monstrant ipsi puer-is." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  With hands held up or characterised by raising of hands.