Angling sketches . 107 THE LADY OR THE SALMON?. HE circum- stances whichattended andcaused thedeath of theHon. Hough-ton Grannom have not long been knownto me, and it isonly now that, by the decease of his father, LordWhitchurch, and the extinction of his noble family,I am permitted to divulge the facts. That the truetale of my unhappy friend will touch different chordsin different breasts, I am well aware. The sports-man, I think, will hesitate to approve him ; the io8 ANGLING SKETCHES fair, I hope, will absolve. Who are we, to scruti-nise human motives, and to award our blame toactions which
Angling sketches . 107 THE LADY OR THE SALMON?. HE circum- stances whichattended andcaused thedeath of theHon. Hough-ton Grannom have not long been knownto me, and it isonly now that, by the decease of his father, LordWhitchurch, and the extinction of his noble family,I am permitted to divulge the facts. That the truetale of my unhappy friend will touch different chordsin different breasts, I am well aware. The sports-man, I think, will hesitate to approve him ; the io8 ANGLING SKETCHES fair, I hope, will absolve. Who are we, to scruti-nise human motives, and to award our blame toactions which, perhaps, might have been our own,had opportunity beset and temptation beguiledus ? There is a certain point at which the keenestsense of honour, the most chivalrous affection anddevotion, cannot bear the strain, but break like asalmon line under a masterful stress. That myfriend succumbed, I admit; that he was his ownjudge, the severest, and passed and executed sen-tence on himself, I have now to show. I shall never forget the shock with whi
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