I am sorry that Mr.Carrington has thought proper to forestall me.

No doubt he has his own motives for taking my character in charge." "Then it is true!" said Mrs.Lee, a little more quickly than she had meant to speak.
"True in its leading facts; untrue in some of its details, and in the impression it creates.

During the Presidential election which took place eight years ago last autumn, there was, as you may remember, a violent contest and a very close vote.

We believed (though I was not so prominent in the party then as now), that the result of that election would be almost as important to the nation as the result of the war itself.

Our defeat meant that the government must pass into the blood-stained hands of rebels, men whose designs were more than doubtful, and who could not, even if their designs had been good, restrain the violence of their followers.