The Moonstone

In the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE at page one hundred and twenty-nine you will find it thus written: Now I saw though too late the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it. Only yesterday I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first Eighteen hundred and fifty) came my lady's nephew Mr. Franklin Blake and held a short conversation with me as follows:- Betteredge says Mr. Franklin I have been to the lawyer's about some family matters; and among other things we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond in my aunt's house in Yorkshire two years since. Mr. Bruff thinks as I think that the whole story ought in the interests of truth to be placed on record in writing-and the sooner the better.