His Other Wife: A Novel — page 358: what you’re looking at

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350 SENTENCED AND RECLAIMED. minor points as may still remain obscure. I feel that I can safely intrust my cause to your hands as it is. What- ever differences of birth and education may divide us on other questions, we are the sons of one mother, gentle- men, and her name is //onor,; and her dearest behest to us is to cherish and keep spotless the character of woman.” * x * a * * * The very air seemed to tremble around the stalwart forms and rugged faces of the twelve, upon whose heart- chords the speaker's tones had played so cunningly. With a movement of indescribable dignity, the prisoner resumed his seat. His pale face wore a look of confident calm, and his eyes fixed themselves steadfastly upon the judge, who now addressed himself to the jury. With clear, incisive tones, and a masterly summing up of the evidence, he charged the jury with the prisoner's fate. The powerful appeal which Mr, Croft had just made to the fair, unbiased judgment of his cause, and his touching allusion to the fact of his isolated position in a com- munity whose feelings and principles on all social and political subjects were naturally averse to his own, had not been lost on the judge, who contented himself with giving the bare facts in the testimony to the consideration of the jury, without any word of comment more than was demanded ex officio. In conclusion, he said: This is the whole of the evidence on the part of the prosecution and on the part of the prisoner. On the part ecomicbooks.: (0)