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The prisoner looked up, shivered, and dropped his head upon his clasped hands again. The dead silence of breathless expectation in the court-room was now broken by the solemn voice of the Clerk of Arraigns, inquiring, in measured tones: "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdict?" "We have," answered the foreman, a jolly, red-headed, round bodied Banff baker.

The jury consulted together about five minutes and then turned to the Court. CLERK OF ARRAIGNS Gentlemen, are you all agreed on your verdict? JURY Yes. CLERK OF ARRAIGNS Who shall say for you? JURY Our foreman. Gentlemen of the jury, look upon the prisoner. How say you, is Mary Blandy guilty of the felony and murder whereof she stands indicted or not guilty? JURY Guilty.

This being graciously accorded, the mate, with a most doleful countenance, and a very unassured voice, made answer to the plain interrogative of the Clerk of Arraigns "Not guilty, my Lord." Whilst the prosecutor was being examined by the Advocate General, I conned over the indictment with a meditative countenance, but without being able to see my way in the least.

Nevertheless, dead silence reigned everywhere in the court as the clerk of arraigns put the solemn question, "Gentlemen, do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty?" And the foreman, clearing his throat huskily, answered in a very tremulous tone, "We find him guilty of wilful murder." There was a long, deep pause. Every one looked at the prisoner.

In answer to the formal demand of the Clerk of Arraigns if she had anything to say why judgment of death should not be given against her the Countess made a barely audible plea for mercy, begging their lordships to intercede for her with the King. Then the Lord High Steward, expressing belief that the King would be moved to mercy, delivered judgment.

Then their conscience stares, and roars, and tears, and arraigns them. On the Delectable Mountains, the pilgrims had a sight of the Celestial City. No matter if it were but a glimpse; still they saw it, they really saw it, and the remembrance of that sight never left them. There it was in glory! Their hands trembled, their eyes were dim with tears, but still that vision was not to be mistaken.

'Wisdom the mirrored shield, or scorn the spear. Urania arraigns Keats for having made his inroad upon the dragon, unguarded by wisdom or by scorn. In terming these two defensive weapons, wisdom and scorn, a mirrored shield and a spear, Shelley was, I apprehend, thinking of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto.

It reproduces the conflicts set afoot by the rivalry between Jerusalem and Samaria. The underlying idea in this novel is not unlike that of "The Love of Zion". But the author allows himself to run riot in the use of antitheses and contrasts. He arraigns the poor inhabitants of Samaria with pitiless severity.

CLERK OF ARRAIGNS What goods or chattels, lands or tenements, had she at the time of the same felony and murder committed, or at any time since to your knowledge? JURY None. CLERK OF ARRAIGNS Hearken, to your verdict as the Court hath recorded it.

Then the Clerk of Arraigns gabbled over the charges: wilful murder of Roger Glenthorpe on 26th October, 1916, and feloniously stealing from the said Roger Glenthorpe the sum of £300 on the same date. To these charges the accused man pleaded "Not guilty" in a low voice. The jury were directed on the first indictment only, and Sir Herbert Templewood got up to address the jury.