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A glance at Guy in his office, not long after his uncle's death, will show the reader how things were managed by the new head of the firm. Guy was seated in Denham's chair, at Denham's desk, reading and writing what, in former days, would have been Denham's letters. Presently Mr Crumps entered. "I was just going to ask you to consult with me," said Guy; "pray sit down, sit down, Mr Crumps."
A man neither of here nor there, neither of this age nor of another, who has neither sex nor country, who is, in brief, merely an idea. That is to say, a no-man. The man we have to do with is the man of flesh and bone I, you, reader of mine, the other man yonder, all of us who walk solidly on the earth.
The reader will find in the course of this work that on the 2nd of August, 1792, from the kindness and humanity of my, august benefactresses, I was compelled to accept a mission to Italy, devised merely to send me from the sanguinary scenes of which they foresaw they and theirs must presently become victims. Early in the following month the Princesse de Lamballe was murdered.
If I had known of anything stronger against the Resurrection from any other source, I should certainly have produced it. I have answered in outline only, but I do not believe that I have passed any difficulty on one side. What then does the reader think? Was the attack so dangerous, or the defence so far to seek?
Our journey towards Troutenau was for a while prolific in few events, with an account of which it is worth while to entertain my reader. In point of scenery, each new step that we took introduced us to new and constantly varying beauties; but on that head I have said as much, perhaps more, than was necessary.
His opinion of the value and importance of happiness is certainly just, and I shall insert it; not that it will give any information to any reader, but it may serve to show, how the most common notion may be swelled in sound, and diffused in bulk, till it shall, perhaps, astonish the author himself.
Can the reader believe that he purposely had that door locked, we know not how, or by whom, on the system of compelling Gowrie to ‘come and be killed’ by way of the narrow staircase? Could we see Gowrie House, and its ‘secret ways,’ as it then was, we might understand this problem of the locked doors.
And he did tell me the whole, which, along with what I learned afterwards from Marion, I will set down as nearly as I can, throwing it into the form of direct narration. I will not pledge myself for the accuracy of every trifling particular which that form may render it necessary to introduce; neither, I am sure, having thus explained, will my reader demand it of me.
Even Spinkie lay in a melancholy little heap in the lee scuppers. You think this a far-fetched coincidence, good reader! Well, all we can say is that we could tell you of another a double coincidence, which was far more extraordinary than this one, but as it has nothing to do with our tale we refrain from inflicting it on you.
By what process of logic, English reader, are you going to convince yourself that this race your own with larger opportunities is not the finer race of the two? I have not, be it observed, expressed the opinion that the American national character is finer than the English; only that it is finer than the European commonly supposes.
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