In compliance with this call he delivered an ample relation of his motives and actions." There he stopped.
I besought him to say who this criminal was, and what the instigations that compelled him.

My uncle was silent.

I urged this inquiry with new force.

I reverted to my own knowledge, and sought in this some basis to conjecture.

I ran over the scanty catalogue of the men whom I knew; I lighted on no one who was qualified for ministering to malice like this.
Again I resorted to importunity.