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This wretched man, then, was no escaped convict; but he was undoubtedly a crazy being, who, having fled from some retreat, thought to elude recapture by hiding in this lonely place! Max hardly knew what to think. The change was so complete that he felt as though he must alter his plans in accordance with the new line-up.
Even in the United States, the principle of bringing convict labour and free labour into a competition which must obviously be to the disadvantage of the latter, has already found many opponents, whose number is not likely to diminish with access of years. For this very reason though, our best prisons would seem at the first glance to be better conducted than those of America.
I want him to write some more books for me to read. I'm sorry Kinner has charge of the prosecution. He'd rather convict an innocent man than a guilty one. All right, my boy, I guess we are ready." "Don't try to get up!" admonished the nurse to Chick; "I'll lift you over." But Chick scorned assistance.
Wesley Thompson, projected into an unfamiliar environment and among a to him strange manner of men, took up his evangelistic cudgel and administered shocked reproof. It was, in a way, practice for the tasks the Methodist Board of Home Missions had appointed him to perform. But if he failed to convict these two of sin, he convinced them of discourtesy. Even a rude voyageur has his code of manners.
The coarse tones of Maurice Frere roused him. "What do you want?" he asked. Rufus Dawes, raising his head, contemplated the figure before him, and recognized it. "Is it you?" he said slowly. "What do you mean? Do you know me?" asked Frere, drawing back. But the convict did not reply.
Wilmot, that although the strides of cruelty and oppression are most rapid, the return to even-handed justice is equally slow. Eventually the gross injustice to this man was acknowledged, for an order from the home government was procured for his liberation and return; but it was too late, Stuurman had died a convict.
Malfeasance, bribery you know the legal terms in which such conduct might be defined better than I." For a moment Hendricks laughed then with a well-simulated coolness he retorted. "A weapon hardly available to your hand, Mr. Burton. You will recall that I acted for you. To accuse me as agent would be to convict yourself as principal." But Hamilton's laugh was the more confident. "Think again.
Dey said he was an escaped convict, but he was naturalist, und dot was enough for me. He would call all der life beasts from der forest, und dey would come. I said he was St. Francis of Assizi in a new dransmigration produced, und he laughed und said he haf never preach to der fishes. He sold dem for tripang beche-de-mer.
He believes he can help you." "He helped to arrest me," said Penreath, with a slight indifferent look at the detective. "But not to convict you," said Colwyn. "I had hoped to help you." "What do you want of me?" Penreath's tone was cold. "In the first place, I have to say that I believe you innocent."
We know how loudly Leicester had complained we have seen how clearly Walsingham could convict; but Elizabeth, though convicted, could always confute: for an absolute sovereign, even without resorting to Philip's syllogisms of axe and faggot, was apt in the sixteenth century to have the best of an argument with private individuals.
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