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I should not like to have a son of mine accused of such motives even though I knew it to be untrue." Beverly was silent. He dimly saw that his father was right. "Think it over," suggested old Cruger. "Have I your consent?" asked Beverly. "Don't put me in the position of being compelled to say, 'Bless you, my child, after I have damned you for disobedience," said the elder Cruger laughingly.
So far as it goes, it absolutely leaves to his discretion to decide what things shall be considered crimes, and what shall be the penalty; whether an accused person has been guilty of actions by him declared to be crimes; and how, when, and where the penalty shall be inflicted. In the American Navy there is an everlasting suspension of the Habeas Corpus.
Attend to your plea, Bumppo, said the Judge; you hear that you are accused of using your rifle against an officer of justice? Are you guilty or not guilty?
While I was trying to solve the mystery of my course, I was aided by a revelation so sudden that it startled me, for the owner of the hound came galloping up and fiercely demanded to know where his dog was. He rated us severely accused us of stealing the animal, and threatened to prosecute us then and there. I knew what we had done.
He accused him of having sold himself to Catiline, of having forged wills, murdered the heirs of estates and stolen their property, of having murdered officers of the treasury and seized the public money, of having outraged gods and men, decency, equity, and law; of having suffered every abomination and committed every crime of which human nature was capable.
"If the accused and the accuser agreed between themselves to steal my dish," replied the count, "and if, in order to remove our suspicions, they mutually accuse each other, the trial will establish whether they are both guilty or innocent, or whether one is guilty and the other innocent." "Yes, yes," cried the leudes enjoying by anticipation the spectacle of human suffering; "the double trial!"
"Did he tell you anything of the girl who drove him off without a kind word heaping upon him reproaches and wounding his noble heart to the core? If he did, it was I. Oh, how I have suffered since! Even when I accused him of cowardice and treachery, in my heart I was proud of him. Oh! tell me where he is, that I may go to him. I have been looking for him every moment since the battle.
They must both be accused as accomplices in the deed, and the document proved Orion's knowledge of it, at any rate. Plotinus, the bishop, at whose instigation the fugitives had been chased, could fill up what the damsel might choose to conceal. He had started to follow the patriarch immediately after the pursuers had set out, and had only returned from Upper Egypt early on the previous day.
"Ach, that used to make me mad the way they lied about Karl. The papers used to print stories about the 'Brimstone League, a sort of 'inner circle' connected with the International, though we all knew there was never such a thing in existence. Karl was accused of trying to plan murders and bloody revolutions, the very thing he hated and feared above everything else.
"Where is the body of the person abducted? Where is the senator?" he asked. "You accuse us of walling him up with stones and plaster. If so, we alone know where he is; you have kept us twenty-three days in prison, and the senator must be dead by this time for want of food. We are therefore murderers, but you have not accused us of murder.
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