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It was a virtue which went far to vouch for all others in the view of his lawless, open-handed brethren of the barracks and the Camp, and made them forgive him many moments when the mood of silence and the habit of solitude, not uncommon with him, would otherwise have incensed a fraternity with whom to live apart is the deadliest charge, and the sentence of excommunication against any who dare to provoke it.
"I'm a stupid old horse, who can't brush his own coat; but there's my young godson on my back, cleaning me like an angel." I won't vouch for what the old horse was thinking, for it is very difficult to find out what any old horse is thinking. "Oh dear!" said Diamond when he had done, "I'm so tired!" And he laid himself down at full length on old Diamond's back.
"Who is that lady?" asked the marquis, signing toward the unknown woman. "I believe she comes from Moulins," replied Monsieur de Granville. "She is the Comtesse de Vandieres, and they say she is mad; but as she has only been here two months I will not vouch for the truth of these hearsays." Monsieur d'Albon thanked his friends, and placing the colonel in the carriage, started with him for Cassan.
"'If you refer to Miss Fancher, yes. She became my patient in 1864. Her case is a most remarkable one. "'But has she eaten nothing during all these years? "'I can safely say she has not. "'Are the family also willing to vouch for the truth of this extraordinary statement? "'You will find them very reticent to newspaper men and to strangers generally.
Oh, yes! I remember." Kerr shrugged. "Never heard of him at home, and can't vouch for every fellow who comes along, just because he is English." "Quite so!" said Harry, with a straight look at Kerr that made Flora uncomfortable. "But Judge Buller has already vouched for that man," she said quickly, "so he must be all right." Kerr inclined his head to her with a smile.
"Perfectly so; he gave it into my keeping on the day of the christening, to be given to his son when he should have reached his majority, if he himself had not, before that time, claimed him as his child." "You can then vouch for its genuineness?" "I can." "How long a time elapsed between the birth of this child and the death of Harold Mainwaring, the father?" "About five years.
His grim and proud nature cared but little for mere matters of pomp and ceremony. Money and possessions, curiously enough, affected him little. Messrs. Rengger and Longchamps vouch for it that, having once discovered that he was the possessor of 800 piastres, he thought this sum a great deal too much for a single person, and he spent it.
Osborne in the print, whereas I have seen it, and can vouch that it is but the picture of a high-waisted gown with an impossible doll's face simpering over it and, perhaps, Mr. Dobbin's sentimental Amelia was no more like the real one than this absurd little print which he cherished. But what man in love, of us, is better informed? or is he much happier when he sees and owns his delusion?
While the island was agog over Mr. Dow's misfortune, there had been a bold robbery at St. Michael's Rectory of the strong-box containing the communion plate, the parish taxes for the year, and what was of great moment to at least one person the parish register of deaths, baptisms, and marriages. Thus it was that now no human being in Jersey could vouch that Guida had been married.
The belief and hallucinatory experiences are still very common in the Highlands, where I have myself collected many recent instances. Mr. Tylor observes that the examples 'prove a little too much; they vouch not only for human apparitions, but for such phantoms as demon dogs, and for still more fanciful symbolic omens. This is perfectly true.
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