His Other Wife: A Novel — page 353: what you’re looking at

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MISTAKEN IDENTITY. 3435 attempted murder charged to his account by the evidence laid before you to-day. ‘If you shall decide that he is not guilty, it is fair to presume that he will be restored to his high and honor- able place in this community, while the poor, deserted woman who accuses him of so horrid an attempt upon her life, and the subsequent appropriation of her property, must retire into her childless and desolate obscurity. ‘If you decide that he is guilty, his punishment, under the law, is ‘fine and imprisonment,’ with, of course, the restoration of the ill-gotten gains derived from the devoted magninimity of the wife, who chose rather to die in want and destitution than expose the crime of the man she loved far better than her life. ‘‘T should not only waste words, but offend your intel_ ligence, gentlemen of the jury, did I dwell further upon the case so fully presented for your judgment. I have only to remind you that in your hands rests the future of that haggard woman, who stands alone in this wide world, called back to it from the very jaws of the grave, and calls to you for justice.” Eomicbooks.¢o