Don't worry yourself on that score, my dear Mr.Bacon.Even though you may write a book, nobody will accuse you of being exceptionally intelligent." "But I cannot make a book of your narrative without your leave," I observed, with a painful sense of having gained nothing by my motion.
"And that leave may be sooner or later forthcoming, on conditions." As the reader will find in the sequel, the leave has been given and the conditions have been fulfilled, and Mr.Fortescue's personal narrative--partly taken down from his own dictation, but for the most part extended from his manuscript--begins with the following chapter..