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There is no more of the ye's and thous with which, when he would make an exordium, Thackeray addressed the world a fashion long since laid aside. Eliot drew much nearer to the truth, the quiet, homely verity of her scenes is a closer approximation to life, realizes life more vitally than the most veracious page of "Vanity Fair."
Now the old maid, who was all eyes, and followed the great and notable changes which were taking place in the person of this badly hanged man, pulled the surgeon by the sleeve, and pointing out to him, by a curious glance of the eye, the piteous cause, said to him "Will he for the future be always like that?" "Often," replied the veracious surgeon. "Oh! he was much nicer hanged!"
One day, as Mr Johnson seemed in an especially good humour, I got Grey to come, and we begged hard that he would go on with his history. "Ah yes, my true and veracious narrative," he answered. "Ho! ho! ho!" His ogre-like laugh sounded along the deck, and served as a gong to summon an audience around him, though only a favoured few ventured into his cabin.
It went against my conscience to be the only liar amongst these exceedingly veracious Orientals, and so I could not think of inventing anything. "My friends," I began at length, "I am only a young man; also a native of a country where marvellous things do not often happen, so that I can tell you nothing to equal in interest the stories I have heard.
He avowed his own feelings, and announced: "I have determined to crowd the court to the wall and regain my position before night." As Judge Herndon was a bystander, his account of the further proceedings must be as faithful as veracious: "At the reassembling of court, Mr.
Nevertheless, seeing that men are divided into two sections, the one and by far the greater composed of the ignorant and superficial, and the other of the learned and reflective, I beg to state that it is to the latter I would appeal. Their judgment, I believe, will be in favour of my veracity, and, indeed, why should I not be veracious?
The suggestion, according to documents at hand which seem to be veracious, was adopted with enthusiasm. The exile was communicated with, and joy settled upon the people of Hades when word was received that Bonaparte was on his way. As we have seen, on the night of the 5th of May he left St. Helena, and on the 10th he landed on the right bank of the Styx. A magnificent army awaited him.
"The Tammanies, a very trying tribe, I assure you. It seems impossible to make any impression on them or teach them anything." "Fancy! Did you ever have any adventures yourself with these Indians?" asked Imogen, deeply excited over this veracious resumé of life in modern New York. "Oh, dear, yes frequently." "Do tell me some of yours. This is so very interesting.
And, again, Providence having disposed of these several scamps raised up to him a friend. But that friend is of sufficient importance to this veracious history to deserve a paragraph to himself. The Pylades of this Orestes was known of ordinary mortals as Royal Thatcher.
But what I said to Estella, and what she said to me, will never be revealed to any one in this world; the results, however, will appear hereafter, in this veracious chronicle. It was a bright and sunny autumn day. We were a very happy party. Estella was disguised with gold spectacles, a black wig and a veil, and she looked like some middle-aged school-teacher out for a holiday.
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