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'In my humble way, Buckland. 'M'Naughten, among other things. Humble enough, that, I admit. 'I am not a great admirer of M'Naughten, returned his sister, with a look of amusement. 'No? I congratulate you. I wonder what Peak thinks of the book? 'I really don't know. 'Then let me ask another question. What do you think of Peak? Sidwell regarded him with quiet reflectiveness.
But we had on board with us a man whose evidence it would not do to put aside. He had come near these perils in the body; he had visited a robber inn. The public has an old and well-grounded favour for this class of incident, and shall be gratified to the best of my power. My fellow-passenger, whom we shall call M'Naughten, had come from New York to Boston with a comrade, seeking work.
A person standing without could easily take a purse from under the pillow, or even strangle a sleeper as he lay abed. M'Naughten and his comrade stared at each other like Balboa and his men, "with a wild surmise"; and then the latter, catching up the lamp, ran to the other frame and roughly raised the curtain.
For a second or so these five persons looked each other in the eyes, then the curtain was dropped, and M'Naughten and his friend made but one bolt of it out of the room and downstairs. The man in the white cap said nothing as they passed him; and they were so pleased to be once more in the open night that they gave up all notion of a bed, and walked the streets of Boston till the morning.
There he stood, petrified; and M'Naughten, who had followed, grasped him by the wrist in terror. They could see into another room, larger in size than that which they occupied, where three men sat crouching and silent in the dark.
A person standing without could easily take a purse from under the pillow, or even strangle a sleeper as he lay abed. M'Naughten and his comrade stared at each other like Vasco's seamen, 'with a wild surmise'; and then the latter, catching up the lamp, ran to the other frame and roughly raised the curtain.
You wish to represent that this attack on M'Naughten involves no attack on Christianity? 'Not on Christianity as I understand it. Buckland's face expressed profound disgust, but he controlled his speech. 'Well, I foresaw this. You attacked a new sophistry, but there is a newer sophistry still, and uncommonly difficult it is to deal with. Mr. Peak, I have a plain word to say to you.
M'Naughten is suggestive; but one comes across books of the same purpose which can have no result but to injure their cause with all thinking people. 'I have seen many such, remarked Godwin. Mr. Warricombe stepped to a bookcase and took down a small volume. 'I wonder whether you know this book of Ampare's, La Grace, Rome, et Dante? Delightful for odd moments!
But we had on board with us a man whose evidence it would not do to put aside. He had come near these perils in the body; he had visited a robber inn. The public has an old and well-grounded favour for this class of incident, and shall be gratified to the best of my power. My fellow-passenger, whom we shall call M'Naughten, had come from New York to Boston with a comrade, seeking work.
For a second or so these five persons looked each other in the eyes, then the curtain was dropped, and M'Naughten and his friend made but one bolt of it out of the room and down the stairs. The man in the white cap said nothing as they passed him; and they were so pleased to be once more in the open night that they gave up all notion of a bed, and walked the streets of Boston till the morning.
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