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In making this statement I have purposely couched it in bald and simple / language, for fear I should be accused of colouring my narrative for the / sake of effect. If, however, I have told my story with any approach to / realism, the reader will understand me when I say that by this time / the succession of dramatic incidents which had occurred had arrested / my attention and excited my imagination to the exclusion of all minor / topics.
How could I plod through the dull routine of an agent's work, or / interest myself in the thatch of this tenant's bothy or the sails of / that one's boat, when my mind was taken up by the chain of events which / I have described, and was still busy seeking an explanation for them.