I am forbidden to tell more in this narrative than I knew myself at the time.

Or, to put it plainer, I am to keep strictly within the limits of my own experience, and am not to inform you of what other persons told me--for the very sufficient reason that you are to have the information from those other persons themselves, at first hand.
In this matter of the Moonstone the plan is, not to present reports, but to produce witnesses.

I picture to myself a member of the family reading these pages fifty years hence.

Lord! what a compliment he will feel it, to be asked to take nothing on hear-say, and to be treated in all respects like a Judge on the bench.
At this place, then, we part--for the present, at least--after long journeying together, with a companionable feeling, I hope, on both sides.

The devil's dance of the Indian Diamond has threaded its way to London; and to London you must go after it, leaving me at the country-house.