From the moment he entered upon the execution of this purpose, dictated as it probably was by an unaffected principle of duty, his misfortunes took their commencement.

All I have further to state of his history is the uninterrupted persecution of a malignant destiny, a series of adventures that seemed to take their rise in various accidents, but pointing to one termination.

Him they overwhelmed with an anguish he was of all others least qualified to bear; and these waters of bitterness, extending beyond him, poured their deadly venom upon others.
I being myself the most unfortunate of their victims.
The person in whom these calamities originated was Mr.Falkland's nearest neighbour, a man of estate equal to his own, by name Barnabas Tyrrel.

This man one might at first have supposed of all others least qualified from instruction, or inclined by the habits of his life, to disturb the enjoyments of a mind so richly endowed as that of Mr.
Falkland.

Mr.Tyrrel might have passed for a true model of the English squire.