The Unspeakable Gentleman

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Unspeakable Gentleman , by John P. MarquandThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Unspeakable GentlemanAuthor: John P. MarquandRelease Date: November 17, 2003 [eBook #10109] Most recently updated: May 18, 2008Language: EnglishChatacter set encoding: US-ASCII***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UNSPEAKABLE GENTLEMAN ***E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTHE UNSPEAKABLE GENTLEMANBY J.P. MARQUAND1922II have seen the improbable turn true too often not to have it disturb me. Suppose these memoirs still exist when theFrench royalist plot of 1805 and my father's peculiar role in it are forgotten. I cannot help but remember it is a restlessland across the water. But surely people will continue to recollect. Surely these few pages, written with the sole purposeof explaining my father's part in the affair, will not degenerate into anything so pitifully fanciful as the story of a man whotried his best to be a bad example because he could not be a good one.It was my Uncle Jason who was with me when I learned of my father's return to America. I still remember the look ofsympathetic concern on his broad, good-natured face, as I read my ...