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"I could tell you much more about the quarrels and disturbances of which we unfortunate passengers had to be the passive witnesses, and which, accustomed as we were to them in the day-time, filled me with greater horror than I can describe, breaking upon the stillness of the night, when all was quiet but the troubled ocean, whose murmurs, instead of arousing, served to lull us into a deeper repose.
'Tell that to Apelles the Jew, said Horace the Roman; but his fellow-Israelite, Gamaliel' and he turned to the jeweller who was sitting with the other witnesses will certainly not believe it; still less I, who see through this tissue of falsehood.
It was so short and pointed that in no other way could its wickedness be so well depicted as by making it a witness against itself. I had nothing to do but keep quiet. The accusation was made. I knew where to find the proof if it should be legally called for, and until it was I should volunteer no evidence, and my witnesses could not be attacked or discredited in advance.
Tell it to the Morn!" how strongly does the heart re-echo the solemn invocation which calls on those abiding witnesses to speak once of what they knew long ago! The mention of these ancient worships may lead us to ask in what manner Wordsworth was affected "by the Nature-deities of Greece and Rome" impersonations which have preserved through so many ages so strange a charm.
It is a pity that none of these witnesses of a large public dinner has recorded her bird's-eye impression of it at the interesting moment when their presence is suffered or desired.
Alas! there was no mistake; the marriage had been celebrated on the 14th of June. The two witnesses, as she said, were Sarah Smith and Arthur Ireton. The marriage service had been performed by the Reverend Henry Morton. The entry was perfectly regular, no flaw in it. Sir John's face fell as he read it. "Now," he said, "the marriage laws in England are very strict; there is no evading them.
There was the usual click of typewriters, and the buzz of the ticker, and the hum of conversation. We have any number of witnesses of the whole affair, but as far as any of them knows no shot was fired, no smoke was seen, no noise was heard, nor was any weapon found. Yet here on my desk is a thirty-two-calibre bullet.
We should all praise him, that we may be so many witnesses before God of the things which we know must entitle him to mercy from his Father who is in heaven. When I first heard that he was dead especially when I was asked to speak about him I began to think of his character in a more careful manner than I had ever done before.
Nature gives her products life, and they are at least equal to their sources in dignity. Why should mind, the actualisation of nature's powers, produce something so inferior to itself, reverting in its expression to material being, so that its witnesses seem so many fossils with which it strews its path?
But if any one of those wronged shall come, consider it a great point, and feel the greatest hatred for this man, who dared to rob of their goods the very men whom other men through pity have chosen as objects of charity. Call me the witnesses. I do not know why you should feel differently about him from his relatives. I will pass over the accusations which his mother made during her life.
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