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Updated: June 7, 2025
I could not despise you without despising myself! I don't know how to put it. I sound like a fool! But but this is what I mean. You make me seem worth while to myself." Colina's hands stole to her breast. "Ah! If I could believe you!" she breathed. "Give me time!" he begged. "What good does talking do! What I do will show you!" Little by little she allowed him to console her.
This new evidence must be weighed and sifted with calm minds. I request that you declare a mistrial, and that " A still more dramatic surprise awaited Mr. Pascoe and the court. Toward the end of the telling of Colina's painful tale Gordon Strange had been forgotten by all in the room except the policeman detailed to watch him.
A self-deceiving argument ran through Colina's brain like quick-silver: "If I go, I shall be tormented by the feeling that he got the best of me; if I stay a while I can put him in his place!" She dismounted. The young man turned abruptly to tie Ginger to the poplar-tree, but even in the boundary of his cheek Colina read his beaming happiness.
When her father was present he addressed Colina's ear, her chin or her golden top-knot, never her eyes. John Gaviller apparently never looked at her either, but Colina knew he was watching her closely. She was not alarmed. She had herself well in hand, and there was nothing in her politely smiling, slightly scornful air to give the most anxious parent concern.
Every man connected with the case stared before him as if he beheld the horror with his physical eyes. Colina's self-control escaped her entirely. She covered her face with her hands and wept like any girl. The judge proposed an adjournment. The witness, the prisoner, the prisoner's counsel were all against it. It was decided to continue. A breath of relief escaped the spectators.
All that had gone before in this startling trial was nothing to Colina's story. When Colina came to her meeting with Nesis her brave port was shaken. Her voice began to tremble. She could not bring herself to name the dreadful thing. The judge, perceiving a stoppage in her story, interrupted her. "Miss Gaviller, if the girl could understand you, why did she answer by signs?"
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