I sometimes look back and laugh at the manner in which you used to bully the old judge, and the gaping jury, and your own brother lawyers, while the foam would run through your clenched teeth and from your lips in very passion; and then I wondered, when you were doing so well, that you ever gave up there, to undertake a business, the very first job in which put your neck in danger." "You may well wonder, Munro.

I could not well explain the mystery to myself, were I to try; and it is this which made the question and doubt which we set out to explain.

To those who knew me well from the first, it is not matter of surprise that I should be for ever in excitements of one kind or another.

From my childhood up, my temper was of a restless and unquiet character--I was always a peevish, a fretful and discontented person.

I looked with scorn and contempt upon the humdrum ways of those about me, and longed for perpetual change, and wild and stirring incidents.