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How did it all happen?" I had offended a certain Mr. Fane, toady-in-ordinary to Frederick Chandos." "Ah!" cried Mrs. Yorke, shaking her head. "Yes; you were right again, mother, there the whole affair is a tribute to your sagacity, if you will only permit me to narrate it to you.
But I undertook to narrate a circumstance which exhibited Sir Harry Burrard Neale's character in its true colours. I need not enter into an account of that painful event, the Mutiny of the British Fleet. It broke out first at Spithead, on the 15th April, 1797, on board Lord Bridport's flag-ship, the Royal George; the crews of the other ships of the fleet following the example thus set them.
As it happened, however, I was that day at Fontainebleau, and hunted with the King; and, favoured both by chance and the confidence with which my master never failed to honour me, am able not only to refute this story, but to narrate the actual facts from which it took its rise.
The Gospels being genuine and reliable, the life and words and miracles of Jesus they narrate, give sufficient proof of the divinity of Christ to satisfy every reasonable demand of the intellect. This is especially true concerning the resurrection of Christ, on which the proof of Christianity hinges. "He showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs."
It was not, however, till long past noon, that the corporal was able to narrate what had taken place. "Will your lieutenant pay us for saving you and bringing him his boat?" demanded the men. Now, it must be observed, that a great revolution had taken place in the corporal's feelings since the horror and sufferings of the night.
Hence it is meet that one should abstain from giving instruction unto others."" "'Yudhishthira said, "Tell me, O grandsire, in what kind of man or woman, O chief of the Bharatas, does the goddess of prosperity always reside?" "'Bhishma said, "I shall, in this connection, narrate to thee what occurred and what I have heard.
Before the history of any life can be written, that life must be lived; so that it is not my life that I am now writing. Attacked in early youth by an abominable moral malady, I here narrate what happened to me during the space of three years.
Of that land which we reached in due time, and where we made our abiding place, and where our children were born, I shall tell of in its place; but since this chronicle has proceeded so far in an exact order of the events as they came to pass, it is necessary first to narrate how we came by the sheets on which it is written.
Indeed, it may be here proper for me to narrate, that my retiring into the background during the last two or three years, was a thing, as I have said, done on mature deliberation; partly, in order that the weight of my talents might be rightly estimated; and partly, that men might, of their own reflections, come to a proper understanding concerning them. I did not secede from the council.
Hamilton stares too much for my taste, and I don't believe he is kind to his sisters; they are half afraid of him. And nothing would induce her to alter her opinion. But Miss Darrell thoroughly amused her. Jill's shrewd, honest eyes were hardly in fault there: she used to narrate with glee any little fact she could glean about 'the lady with two faces, as she used to call her.
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