I think that that stock will still be complete and unimpaired when I finish these memoirs, if I ever finish them.

I believe that if I should put in all or any of those incidents I should be sure to strike them out when I came to revise this book.
Orion wrote his autobiography and sent it to me.

But great was my disappointment; and my vexation, too.

In it he was constantly making a hero of himself, exactly as I should have done and am doing now, and he was constantly forgetting to put in the episodes which placed him in an unheroic light.

I knew several incidents of his life which were distinctly and painfully unheroic, but when I came across them in his autobiography they had changed color.