[…][T]hey hacked, havoced, or pistolled all they met with, without distinction, blaspheming, cursing and damning themselves most hideously

Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]

The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.

In his speech, the best man got the bride's name wrong. What a clanger!