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But what can I offer you now? 'You must love me always, Alec, for now I have only you. 'Are you sure that you will never believe that I am guilty of this crime? 'Why can you say nothing in self-defence? 'That I can't tell you either. There was a silence between them. At last Alec spoke again.

Then the Congressman pressed his charges and said that the fellow had been in prison for a crime a good many years before. This roused Roosevelt, who said, "He never told me about that," and he immediately telegraphed the accused for an explanation.

The offense you have committed stealing a piece of lead pipe is a crime. Do you hear me? A criminal offense one that I could punish you very severely for. I could send you to the penitentiary for one year if I chose the law says I may one year at hard labor for stealing a piece of lead pipe. Now, if you have any sense you will pay strict attention to what I am going to tell you.

Only upon the two last, therefore, did my mind dwell; and for some time I sat coolly weighing the one against the other. Unfortunately, my young days had been passed in a manner almost heathenish; and at that time I did not even know that taking one's own life was a crime.

American cities seemed so large and so full of violent accosting figures; but she did not reason that this large south-of-the- border city that she had chosen to reside in, which had its toddler days as American military barrooms, had the crime level of LA and Chicago combined. She didn't really have a reason for her inability to acclimate.

Sommers informed him that he had seen the gentleman whose name had been forged, and that, in consideration of the family connections of the accused, he had agreed not to appear against him, and that there would be very little danger of his conviction of the crime of which he was charged. This appeared to be very gratifying information for Mr.

It scans the system of justice in its treatment of the wrong-doer, and declares that the crude attempt to fit the punishment to the crime, and to protect society by deterrent penalties, is not the justice of Him who is "faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Certainly if we of the twentieth century can agree upon any one thing, it is this: That life without toil is a crime, and that any one who enjoys leisure and comfort and the luxuries of living without paying the price of toil is a social parasite.

But ought I not to have left all things to follow her, to discover her, to force upon her an independence from want, or possibly from crime? Ah, there was my sin, and the sin of my nature; the sin, too, of the children of the world passive sin. I could sacrifice my happiness, but not my indolence; I was not ungenerous, I was inert. But is it too late?

Let me explain my meaning to you. Remember how poor we are. Mrs Nickleby shook her head, and said, through her tears, that poverty was not a crime.