I know not, indeed, how you can deny them admission.

For, if to me, the immediate witness, they were fertile of perplexity and doubt, how must they affect another to whom they are recommended only by my testimony?
It was only by subsequent events, that I was fully and incontestibly assured of the veracity of my senses.
Meanwhile what was I to think?
I had been assured that a design had been formed against my life.

The ruffians had leagued to murder me.

Whom had I offended?
Who was there with whom I had ever maintained intercourse, who was capable of harbouring such atrocious purposes?
My temper was the reverse of cruel and imperious.

My heart was touched with sympathy for the children of misfortune.