He looked a little fluttered and anxious as he opened the manuscript.

This was the first occasion on which his ability as a narrator was to be brought to the test, and I saw him glance nervously at Jessie's attentive face.
"I need not trouble you with much in the way of preface," he said.

"This is the story of a very remarkable event in the life of one of my brother clergymen.

He and I became acquainted through being associated with each other in the management of a Missionary Society.

I saw him for the last time in London when he was about to leave his country and his friends forever, and was then informed of the circumstances which have afforded the material for this narrative." BROTHER OWEN'S STORY of THE PARSON'S SCRUPLE..