I seem to know it, yet I cannot place it.
Haven't I met you somewhere ?" "Perhaps you were a lay delegate to the recent Episcopal Convention in New York ?" politely suggested Mr.Pyecroft.
"No.

I did not even attend any of the sessions." "Then, of course, it could not have been there that you saw me," said Mr.Pyecroft.
"Perhaps it will come to me," said Judge Harvey.
"Perhaps," said Mr.Pyecroft.
Mrs.De Peyster, for all her personal apprehension, could but marvel at this young man of the sea who had fastened himself upon her back.
Most amazing of all, he seemed to like the taste of his danger.
"Judge Harvey, Mr.De Peyster was remarking when you came in," Mr.
Pyecroft continued without permitting a lull, "that he wished his presence in this house to remain unknown.

Also I had just told him and his young wife that my earlier years were given over to a life for which I have been trying to atone by good works.

Now I have a very humiliating further confession to make to you all.

Recently there has been--may I call it a recrudescence ?--an uncontrollable recrudescence of my former regrettable self.