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Updated: May 14, 2025
In each a beautiful young woman of the peasant class is tried and condemned for child-murder; but, although condemned on circumstancial evidence under a law of peculiar severity, Effie Deans is really innocent, whereas Hetty Sorrel is guilty. In the novel of the last generation we see little of Effie, and our attention is chiefly drawn to the simple heroism of her sister Jeanie.
"Oh, my child! my child!" she cried; "what madness is this, and for one so unworthy!" "But there will be no such tragical ending. I will be tried at the Assizes and acquitted. They can't bring me in guilty. Jane Pool's circumstancial evidence may sound very conclusive in the ears of Mr. Justice Smiley, but it won't bring conviction with a grand jury.
"May I eat dry bread to the day of my death if I took or ever will touch a scrap of their money. Richard folded up the letter silently. "Jump into the cab," he said to Ripton. "Anything the matter, Richard?" "No." The driver received directions. Richard sat without speaking. His friend knew that face. He asked whether there was bad news in the letter. For answer, he had the lie circumstancial.
"As I have heard," he said after Braddock's defeat, "since my arrival at this place, a circumstancial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter." Many years later, in draughting a letter for his wife, he wrote,
Of this embassy Rous is a proper witness: Guy's Cliff, I think, is but four miles from Warwick; and he is too circumstancial on what passed there not to have been on the spot. In other respects he seems inclined to be impartial, recording several good and generous acts of Richard. Drake says, that an ambassador from the queen of Spain was present at Richard's coronation at York.
I think this strong circumstancial proof that there is a stettlement of white persons at Nootka sound or some point to the N. W. of us on the coast.
"May I eat dry bread to the day of my death if I took or ever will touch a scrap of their money. Richard folded up the letter silently. "Jump into the cab," he said to Ripton. "Anything the matter, Richard?" "No." The driver received directions. Richard sat without speaking. His friend knew that face. He asked whether there was bad news in the letter. For answer, he had the lie circumstancial.
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