When he had finished, however, Major Pemberton said: "With your permission, general, I will supplement the story a little.

Mr.Brooke has told me somewhat more than he has told you, but I gained the whole facts from his guide's own lips." "No, major, please," Stanley said colouring, even under his dye.
"The matter is not worth telling." "You must permit us to be a judge of that, Mr.Brooke," the general said, with a smile at the young fellow's interruption of his superior officer.
"I beg your pardon, Major Pemberton," Stanley stammered in some confusion.

"Only--" "Only you would rather that I did not tell about your struggle with the leopard.

I think it ought to be told, and I am pretty sure Sir Archibald Campbell will agree with me," and Major Pemberton then gave a full account of the adventure in the forest.
"Thank you, major.

You were certainly quite right in telling the story, for it is one that ought to be told and, if Mr.Brooke will forgive my saying so, is one of those cases in which it is a mistake for a man to try to hide his light under a bushel.
"You see, it cannot but make a difference in the estimation in which we hold you.