"And those reservations?"
"I need not mention all, but I will tell you one as an example. The spiritists deny that we remember former existences--I believe we do."
"Oh! and you think in your next body you will remember your incarnation as Squire Garsworth?"
"I do."
"Do you remember your former existences?"
"Some of them."
"Why not all?"
"Because some of the lives I then lived were base in the extreme, and not worthy of remembrance, so I forgot them--in the same way as you forget disagreeable things and only have thoughts of agreeable events."
"Will you tell me some of your former existences?"
"It would be hardly worth while," replied the squire, irritably, "as you would only look upon my narration as a fairy-tale. But I can tell you what I was--an Egyptian prince, a Roman soldier, a Spanish Moor, and an English pauper in the reign of Elizabeth."