E-book The snare
| Main Author: | Rafael Sabatini |
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| Format: | Electronic Resource 269 hlm; 0.5 mb |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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- It is established beyond doubt that Mr. Butler was drunk at the time.This rests upon the evidence of Sergeant Flanagan and the trooperswho accompanied him, and it rests upon Mr. Butler's own word, as weshall see. And let me add here and now that however wild andirresponsible a rascal he may have been, yet by his own lights he was a man of honour, incapable of falsehood, even though it werecalculated to save his skin. I do not deny that Sir Thomas Pictonhas described him as a "thieving blackguard." But I am sure thatthis was merely the downright, rather extravagant manner, ofcensure peculiar to that distinguished general, and that those whohave taken the expression at its purely literal value have beenlacking at once in charity and in knowledge of the caustic,uncompromising terms of speech of General Picton whom LordWellington, you will remember, called a rough, foulmouthed devil.In further extenuation it may truthfully be urged that the wholehideous and odious affair was the result of a misapprehension;although I cannot go so far as one of Lieutenant Butler's apologistsand accept the view that he was the victim of a deliberate plot onthe part of his too-genial host at Regoa. That is a misconceptioneasily explained.