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I now perceived that I had entirely overdone the business , and that the main consequences of the shock were yet to be experienced . But , in truth , I had no reason to believe that ( with the exception of the matter of relationship , and in the case of Wilson himself , ) this similarity had ever been made a subject of comment , or even observed at all by our schoolfellows . It was also evident , that the water , thus falling from a height of more than four feet , could not do otherwise than fall upon my face , and that the sure consequence would be , to waken me up instantaneously , even from the soundest slumber in the world . To be sure , some bones which were thought to be human , mixed up with a quantity of odd-looking rubbish , had been lately discovered in a retired situation to the east of the city ; and some people went so far as to imagine that in this spot a foul murder had been committed , and that the sufferers were in all probability Hans Pfaall and his associates . But I come to the performance of my new duties cheerfully , and with the frankness and integrity of a man in sober earnest to do what I can . We sincerely wish - - nay , we even confidently hope , that words so full of warning , and at the same time so pregnant with truth , may succeed in stirring up something akin to action in the legislative halls of the land . " And it was the nixt mornin ' , sure , jist as I was making up me mind whither it would n't be the purlite thing to sind a bit o ' writin ' to the widdy by way of a love-litter , when up com 'd the delivery servant wid an illigant card , and he tould me that the name on it ( for I niver could rade the copperplate printin on account of being lift handed ) was all about Mounseer , the Count , A Goose , Look - - aisy , Maiter-di-dauns , and that the houl of the divilish lingo was the spalpeeny long name of the little ould furrener Frinchman as lived over the way . It treats , among other things , of Burr 's conspiracy - - of the difficulties experienced in Mississippi navigation , and of the various military operations carried on in the wilderness of the North West . He appeared to be utterly destitute alike of the ambition which urged , and of the passionate energy of mind which enabled me to excel . The policy of our government in regard to the Aborigines is detailed in the commencement of the first volume - - the latter portion is occupied with the manners and customs of the French in the great valley of the Mississippi , and with the adventures of the white settlers on the Ohio . When I afterwards had time for reflection , I did not fail to attribute the extreme violence of the explosion , as regarded myself , to its proper cause — my situation directly above it , and in the line of its greatest power . " When , therefore , Mr. Preston reached me that which he had picked up upon the floor , and near the folding-doors of the apartment , it was with an astonishment nearly bordering upon terror , that I perceived my own already hanging on my arm , ( where I had no doubt unwittingly placed it , ) and that the one presented me was but its exact counterpart in every , in even the minutest possible particular .