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"Eugene Aram," said Houseman, "there is about you something against which the fiercer devil within me would rise in vain. I have read that the tiger can be awed by the human eye, and you compel me into submission by a spell equally unaccountable.
Houseman seemed to draw him out: he told us anecdotes of his rascality, and the distresses to which it had brought him; and he finished by saying: 'Yet you see me now almost rich, and wholly contented. I have always been the luckiest of human beings; no matter what ill-chances to-day, good turns up to-morrow.
State courts also have jurisdiction over any civil action to enforce a right given by the laws of the United States, unless Congress has otherwise provided. Houseman, 93 U. S. Reports, 130, 137; Calvin v. Huntley, 178 Mass. Almost all American courts are known as "courts of record."
While the curate hesitated, they heard a voice in the passage; and presently Houseman was seen at the far end, driving some women before him with vehement gesticulations. "I tell you, ye hell-hags," shrieked his harsh and now straining voice, "that ye suffered her to die! Why did ye not send to London for physicians? Am I not rich enough to buy my child's life at any price?
There is the chance of detection and of death; I allow it. But is not this chance better than some certainties? "I turned away my face. In the silence of my chamber, and in the solitude of my heart, I had thought, as the robber spoke there was a strife within me. "'Will you share the danger and the booty? renewed Houseman, in a low voice. "I turned my eyes upon him.
An' afterwards I seed Houseman, an' I showed him the handkerchief; and I said to him, 'What has come of Clarke? An' he frowned, and, looking at me, said, 'Hark ye, I know not what you mean; but as sure as the devil keeps watch for souls, I will shoot you through the head if you ever let that d -d tongue of yours let slip a single word about Clarke or me or Mr. Aram, so look to yourself!
Notwithstanding all this, as Houseman had some respectable connections in the town among his relations, by the by, was Mr. Aram as he was a thoroughly boon companion a good shot a bold rider excellent at a song, and very cheerful and merry, he was not without as much company as he pleased; and the first night, he and Mr.
Houseman was first arraigned on his former indictment, acquitted, and admitted evidence against Aram, who was thereupon arraigned. The prisoner stood at the bar! Madeline gasped for breath, and clung, with a convulsive motion, to her sister's arm.
That he, Houseman, had no doubt he left the town that night, with the intention of defrauding his creditors, and making off with some jewels he had borrowed from Mr. Elmore." "But, Aram? was this suspicious, nay, abandoned character this Houseman, intimate with Aram?"
"Had Houseman been one of the ruffians! a shot might have freed me, and without a crime, for ever! And till the light flashed on their brows, I thought the smaller man bore his aspect.
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