① This I will now try to explain.[O-S-V倒置]

=I will now try to explain this.

② Now and then we discover what our friends or neighbours really think of us. I don’t mean what they tell us to our faces: that we usually have to discount.[O-S-V倒置]

③ What the world of our grandchildren will be, fifty years hence, we don’t know.[O-S-V倒置]

④ Meanness and generosity, prudence and audacity, courage and timidity, weakness and strength; all these men show at the card table.[O-S-V倒置]