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Those that had befallen us were so embroidered in the telling, that the rumour reached Paris that my father and all his staff had been drowned. The approach to Avignon, particularly when one comes down the Rhône, is very picturesque.
Nor was that all. The new ideas to which he had been converted facilitated reflection along the lines of wickedness. In the Plague of Crime, told the second time, he believed he had found what had befallen Lael. Demedes, he remembered, gave the historic episode to convince his protesting friend how easy it would be to steal and dispose of her.
When I fight near town I usually fire a hundred or so in Manton's back shop, but I dare say I can find my way to his waistcoat. But I confess that I am somewhat accable, by all that has befallen us. To think of my dear old friend being not only alive, but innocent as well! And that he should have such a strapping son and heir to carry on the race of Avon!
My attention did not wander any more, and you may imagine my astonishment at hearing the Colonel describe in minute detail everything which had befallen us upon the previous evening.
The hurt look resting on the face of the young amateur detective was sufficient to convince Dyke Darrel that Harry Bernard spoke the truth, and this knowledge only increased his uneasiness. "I am fearful some terrible ill has befallen Nell," groaned Dyke. "My friend," said Harry, "we must let all other matters rest until we find the girl. I have a suspicion that may lead to something definite.
They could not suspect what a dire calamity had befallen their leader, or a rescue party must have certainly been formed. Another minute and Peleg had arrived at the fence, and bending over held the lantern so that its light fell upon the figure of his captive.
He gave me a most diverting account of his life, and of the many extraordinary events of it; of many adventures which had befallen him in the few years that he had been abroad in the world; and particularly, it was very remarkable, that in the voyage he was now engaged in he had had the misfortune to be five times shipped and unshipped, and never to go to the place whither any of the ships he was in were at first designed.
Fortunately the skin, although much blackened, was quite uninjured a fact which, when he ascertained it beyond a doubt, afforded so much satisfaction to Henri that he capered about shouting with delight, as if some piece of good fortune had befallen him.
Moreover, I placed my negress-slave there and forgot the mishaps which had befallen me.
They had spoken of the pleasant and painful things that had befallen them, since they parted so long ago, or they might not have been able to walk so quietly up and down the crowded rooms, as they did for a while. Then they found a quiet, or rather a noisy, corner in the music room, where they pursued their conversation unmolested, till Harry brought Miss Elphinstone to be introduced to Graeme.
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