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Should he require any attestations from me, I was only too glad to be on the spot and to be called upon to give them. Cunningham, however, had overruled this programme of mine. No one could tell, he said, how he might be received. He might be sorely in need of me to back him up perhaps even to prove the truth of his otherwise unsupported assertions. The Tressidys, he alleged, were peculiar.
Fanny Assingham looked rapt in devotion Fanny Assingham who forsook this other friend as little as she forsook either her host or the Princess or the Prince or the Principino; she supported her, in slow revolutions, in murmurous attestations of presence, at all such times, and Maggie, advancing after a first hesitation, was not to fail of noting her solemn, inscrutable attitude, her eyes attentively lifted, so that she might escape being provoked to betray an impression.
In the case now brought before him, the reader must not doubt; for no memoir exists, or personal biography, that is so trebly authenticated by proofs and attestations direct and collateral.
There was no need of parchments and seals, of attestations, explanations, and professions. The bargain was understood between them, and Mr Slope gave the bishop his hand upon it. The bishop understood the little extra squeeze, and an intelligible gleam of assent twinkled in his eye.
There are photographs of George Harpwood; there are green seals; there are many attestations. The bride must raise her eyes now. She sees the star of the officer. She reads the number 803. Is that from David, too? Ah, yes, she must turn her head. The bridegroom is gone! A man enters, in hot haste and intense excitement. Is it the bridegroom returning? It is Dr. Tarpion. He seizes her by the hand.
Some clerks only or officers of the court remained, who were too much harassed by applications for various forms and papers connected with the routine of public business, and by other official duties which required signatures or attestations, to find much leisure for answering individual questions.
And when one person refused to stand to the award of Brutus, and with great clamor and many attestations appealed to Caesar, Brutus, looking round about him upon those that were present, said, "Caesar does not hinder me, nor will he hinder me, from doing according to the laws." Yet there were many unusual accidents that disturbed them and by mere chance were thrown in their way.
When he made his appearance in the drawing-room, there was almost a struggle amongst the ladies for the earliest honours of salutation. One maiden, however, stood apart, drinking in deeply the attestations of favour with which the heir of the estate was received, but too timid to share in, or to add to them. This was Miss Dodbury.
'Why is not the original deposited in some publick library, instead of exhibiting attestations of its existence?
But there lay all the question. The cures being admitted, the rest followed as a matter of course. However incredible these cures might be, they must be admitted, they said, when numerous witnesses certified their truth. Was it owing to chance that attestations were wanting for the miracles at the Cemetery of St. Médard?
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