"And yet speak English like a native?"
"I was bred up in an English family resident in North Germany."
"What was your object in coming to England?"
"Upon that point you must pardon me: I do not feel myself called upon, simply for the purpose of clearing myself from unfounded charges, to make disclosures of that nature."
"How do you know that the charges against you are unfounded? You have not yet heard them."
"Without pretending to any accurate knowledge of the English laws, I am sure that I cannot have transgressed the laws of any country during my short residence in Wales."
"Were you at the attack of the revenue officers near the chapel of Utragan?"
"I was; but simply as a spectator: I neither understood the object of that attack, nor took any part in it."
"By what ship did you come to England?"
"By the steam-packet Halcyon?"