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I urge the greatest good for the greatest number, Captain; living, you plunge all four of us into suffering; whereas the nobility of an immediate felo-de-se will in common decency exalt your soul to Heaven accompanied and endorsed by the fervent prayers of three grateful hearts."

"Thinks I'm drunk, does he!" exclaimed Anthony, scowling after him. "Well, what the devil so I am, damned d-drunk and so much the better " "So much the worse, Anthony!" "Tush, you talk like a fool, Perry; better be drunk and forget than be sober and a s-suicide felo felo-de-se, buried at cross road stake through your inside devilish unpleasant business " "You talk like a madman, Anthony."

This was sufficient for the coroner; he instructed his jury to bring in a verdict of "Justifiable homicide," which they obediently did. "This verdict," the coroner then said, "entailed the same consequences as an act of felo-de-se, and he felt that he could not give a warrant for the burial of the deceased.

The third of my companions was a mere tramp, sodden with drink a man utterly without significance, except as an example of what to avoid. Some months afterwards, at Pilgrim's Rest, L attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. He was cut down before life was extinct, and on recovery was prosecuted for felo-de-se.

They parcel out themselves, their judgment, their conscience, and whatsoever pertains to their spiritual being, among the customs, traditions, institutions, etiquettes of their time, and renounce all claim to a free existence. After such a piece of spiritual felo-de-se, the man is nothing but one wheel in a machine, or even but one cog upon a wheel.

"'Tis tempting 'em to commit felo-de-se upon us, and that would be the death of the perpetrator; and we wouldn't be the cause of a fellow-creature's death on no account, not we!" "Get some help, then! Here, I'll come with you. We'll see what a few words of authority can do. Quick now; have you got your staves?"

On Thursday there was a snowstorm, and he had no boots at all on; and after that I did not see him, and I wondered if he had committed suicide in which case I thought the jury might almost have brought in a verdict of 'justifiable felo-de-se. And when I told that story the other old gentleman shut his book, and began to talk too.

The coroner's verdict being felo-de-se, the body was not taken into the chapel, but a clergyman met it at the gate and led the way to the grave. Walking with her head down and the dog under her arm, Glory had not seen him at first, but when he began with the tremendous words, "I am the resurrection and the life," she caught her breath and looked up. It was John Storm.

If the stone had wobbled, or slipped, well it was a case of determined felo-de-se." "May I ask how many more wild adventures you undertook without my knowledge?" "One other, of great magnitude. I fell in love with you." "Nonsense!" she retorted. "I knew that long before you admitted it to yourself." "Date, please?" "Well, to begin at the very beginning, you thought I was nice on board the Sirdar.

Colonel Unsworth's sixth cause was the increasing atrophy of the public conscience. He stated that suicide is rarely preached against from the pulpit, as drunkenness is for instance. Further, a jury can seldom be induced to bring in a verdict of felo-de-se. Even where the victim was obviously and, perhaps painfully sane, his act is put down to temporary insanity.