The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make it a bright transparency; to spiritualise the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek, resolutely, the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome
incidents, and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant.
If it is not for the benefit of the public why should I not simply recall these
incidents in my own mind without putting them on paper?
For the time, this little
incident is dismissed without a thought.
The period during which the governors sat in our chair was not very full of striking
incidents.
The case had been considerably complicated through the
incident of the escaped convict and the relations between him and the Barrymores.
She might have stayed even later, but the
incident of her father's odd appearance and manner returned upon the girl's mind to make her anxious, and wondering what had become of him she dropped away from the dancers and bent her steps towards the end of the village at which the parental cottage lay.
It was incredible, and yet it seemed that the only effect of the
incident of the night before was to arouse in her a feeling of protection towards him: she had the same instinctive desire to mother him as she had with regard to her brothers and sisters.
And now it was destined that they should experience the one keen sensation of their later years, the one memorable
incident from which all future
incidents should be dated.
He then remounted his feet, ascended to the pulpit, and resumed his discourse, making no allusion to the
incident.
Now I am calm, but truly there is no more to tell: the
incident ends where it began--in darkness and in doubt.
There shortly followed the most regrettable
incident in his whole career, which pathetically illustrates also the lack of a sense of humor which was perhaps his greatest defect.
Be of good courage, then, friend Rouletabille; it is impossible that the
incident of the inexplicable gallery should be outside the circle of your reason.
