Led by this star, we pressed on through the darkness, until at length the deeper darkness fell that stayed our steps.

We also stand for judgment, even as she and he.

So I will write; but I will write plainly and briefly, setting down what I must, and no more, yet seeking to give truly the picture of that time, and to preserve as long as may be the portrait of the man whose like I have not known.

Yet the fear is always upon me that, failing to show him as he was, I may fail also in gaining an understanding of how he wrought on us, one and all, till his cause became in all things the right, and to seat him where he should be our highest duty and our nearest wish.

For he said little, and that straight to the purpose; no high-flown words of his live in my memory.