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Rob, meanwhile, frightened by the consequences of his disclosures to Jim, slunk off without waiting to bear testimony to the provocation which Jim believed himself to have received. Jim was "reported," of course, and punished; and the knowledge that this must come to the ears of Miss Milly and Mr.
It is said that even what the law admits to be "provocation does not extenuate the guilt of homicide, unless the person provoked is at the time when he does the deed deprived of the power of self-control by the provocation which he has received." /1/ There are obvious reasons for taking the actual state of the defendant's consciousness into account to this extent.
Now if it were only to take a few piastres, I would not care; but to kill a man, coldly and without provocation, is rather bad." "But we get two hundred, you know?" "Ah, there you are right. They will jingle pleasantly, will they not?" The sound of a horse's steps was heard coming down the road. The men crept into concealment and were silent.
Arranging things according to directions, the Indian held the canoe steady while the brothers stepped carefully in for they had learned from experience that the birch-bark canoe, besides being easily broken, is apt to overturn on small provocation.
The whole doctrine of "constructive murder" should be done away with, and only those acts treated as murder and punishable with death where the accused intended deliberately the death of his victim, and was not acting under great provocation or under the kind of mental distress or anxiety which might be reasonably supposed to affect his it might indicate the usual nature of such cases better to say "her" judgment and power of control.
What had he done? Heavens and earth, what had he done? He clung to the rail, staring miserably over the side into the oily water. Some of the passengers lingered to watch him, at first because they thought he was going to be seasick with so little provocation that it amounted to genius, and afterwards because they were sure he must want to commit suicide.
The buttress of the larkspur has sprung forth in response to the pressure of one bee's weight after another, and many a like structure has had the very same origin, or shall we say, provocation?
In America, I think, we should see many aristocratic airs on such provocation, and probably the ferry people would there have rudely thrust the beggar aside; giving him a shilling, however, which no Englishman would ever think of doing.
Edmonstone, one of the most affectionate people in the world; but his maundering mood making him speak of Charles's illness as if he only regarded it as an additional provocation for himself. 'Charles ill! exclaimed Philip. 'Yes; another, of those formations in the joint.
"Sir," replied D'Artagnan, in the calmest manner possible, "you are very young; I shall therefore overlook your frivolous remarks. What took place at Armentieres has no connection whatever with the present occasion. We could scarcely have requested your mother to take a sword and fight us." "Aha! It is a duel, then?" cried Mordaunt, as if disposed to reply at once to the provocation.
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