His Other Wife: A Novel — page 360: what you’re looking at

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352 SENTENCED AND RECLAIMED. A man was seen to ascend the rostrum upon which the judge sat, and to converse in a low tone with the dignified official. Some papers were examined between them, and an earnest conversation took place, after which the man withdrew, and stood upon the lowest step of the rostrum beside the sheriff. Meanwhile the prisoner sat very still, with his face bowed on his hand. Within the snace of half an hour the solid tramp of many feet announced the return of the jury, who marched slowly up the long aisle back to their seats. The fore- man, a dark, serious, earnest-looking man, handed the verdict to the clerk. They had found the prisoner ‘‘ Guiliy/” x x * * x * x The prisoner had lifted his head, and confronted the court with an unflinching calmness. Save for a spasmodic tightening of the lines ahout his mouth, his face expressed no emotion when he heard the terrible word which consigned his character to public infamy, and his body to a convict’s cell for any period of time within a space of thirty years that his judge might decree. In that instant he beheld the fair fabric that he had builded among men fall in blackened ruins to its founda- tion stone. Fame, Wealth, Love—the magic trio that circle round the goal of each heart’s hope, and each of whose wands had touched his life—seemed in that moment Eomicbooks.€o im =)