THE SIMPLE HONESTY THAT EXPRESSED ITSELF ALL OVER HIM; THE SWEET UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HIS GREATNESS.
There sat the man, in actual flesh, whom I had heard of so many thousands of times since that day, thirty years before, when his name shot suddenly to the zenith from a Crimean battlefield, to remain forever celebrated.
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THIS VERDICT WAS A GREAT SURPRISE TO ME
About forty years ago I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich. I was present in one of the sections when young Scoresby underwent his preliminary examination.
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THIS VERDICT WAS A GREAT SURPRISE TO ME
About forty years ago I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich. I was present in one of the sections when young Scoresby underwent his preliminary examination.
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THIS VERDICT WAS A GREAT SURPRISE TO ME
About forty years ago I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich. I was present in one of the sections when young Scoresby underwent his preliminary examination.

Some years later just as
GOOD AND SWEET.
lovable and unpretending as a man can be, but he doesn't know enough to come in when it rains. Now that is absolutely true. He is the supremest ass in the universe; and until half an hour ago nobody knew it but himself and me. He has been pursued, day by day and year by year, by a most phenomenal and astonishing luckiness.
PORTFOLIO
He is just as good and sweet and lovable and unpretending as a man can be, but he doesn't know enough to come in when it rains.