I feel all the cruelty of Narrating these things to you, too far away from the scene of sorrow to aid by your counsel and encourage by your assistance; but it would be worse than cruelty to conceal from you that a terrible crisis is at hand, which will need all your energy to mitigate.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
To do Master Wayland justice, he evinced no particular hostility towards the man, whose history he was Narrating; though, on the other hand, he said nothing in his defence.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Everything was noticed by Carey; and if what we have attempted to describe produced wonder, what we have at present abstained from Narrating, from a regard to what is due to the importance of other circumstances waiting for detail, was not calculated to lessen that feeling.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton