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Nor is this an infallible means for bringing out the truth. Weak-hearted men, impatient at the first pain, will confess crimes they never committed, and criminate others at the same time. Bold and strong ones will bear the most severe torments. Those who have been on the rack before bear it with more courage, for they know how to adapt their limbs to it, and they resist powerfully.
He remained there in easy confinement during ten days, and then, as nothing tending to criminate him had been discovered, was suffered to return to Bromley. Meanwhile the false accusers had been devising a new scheme. Blackhead paid another visit to Bromley, and contrived to take the forged Association out of the place in which he had hid it, and to bring it back to Young.
"What I wish to know was," referring to a slip of paper he held in his hand, and shaking so much he could hardly adjust his glasses to his eyes, "whether you, Wilson, can explain how Barton came possessed of your gun. I believe you refused this explanation to Mr. Bridgnorth?" "I did, sir! If I had said what I knew then, I saw it would criminate Barton, and so I refused telling aught.
In reply to their attempts at consolation she only uttered one brief sentence in Irish. "Oh," said she, "God is good still, still, this was a dark day to Felix and to me!" At the inquest which followed, there was no proof to criminate the wretched brother; nor, to speak truly, were the jury anxious to find any. The man's shrieking misery was more wild and frightful than death itself.
"Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" The criminal is the most solitary creature upon earth; he has no ties for the ties of guilt are nothing; they snap at the lightest breath of self-interest. Faustina's plea dismayed her accomplice and disgusted her captor. "Madam," said the latter, "you had better hold your peace. Your words criminate yourself as well as Lord Vincent."
'Do you know whose gig this is? he said to the woman. 'No, she said sullenly. But she did recognize it as the steward's. 'I'll swear it's Manston's! Come, I can hear it by your tone. However, you needn't say anything which may criminate you. What forethought the man must have had how carefully he must have considered possible contingencies!
And she was very unwilling to do that, because in the first place she had established a full amnesty in her own heart for all that Ransom had done, and wished rather for an opportunity to please than to criminate him; and in the second place, in her inward consciousness she knew that Mrs. Randolph was likely to be displeased with her, in any event.
But the old man was not carried to the house without a scene. He raved, and screamed, and swore, and finally fell to the ground in a fit of impotent rage, protesting to the last that Jack was a liar. When those who were present had been worked up to the highest pitch of excitement, Bradley Gaither spoke "Don't criminate yourself, Jack. I am willing to drop this matter."
'I will make no promises, he returned, in the same stern voice; 'but if you do not speak I will send for the police at once, and have you up before a magistrate. You have connived at theft; that will be sufficient to criminate you.
To answer this question truly would attach to friendless Hannah Thomson some of the disgrace that now belonged to him. "I decline to answer," said Ralph. "Of course, I do not want the prisoner to criminate himself," said Bronson significantly. During this last passage Bud had come in, but, to Ralph's disappointment he remained near the door, talking to Walter Johnson, who had come with him.
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