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Sturgis was on his feet in a second. "Impanel a jury of six of each, Luck versus Science. Give them candles and a couple of decks of cards. Send them into the jury-room, and just abide by the result!" There was no disputing the fairness of the proposition.
Mary Barrascale had reached a condition from which her contributions to the talk emerged in appalled gasps. Eleanor wheeled on her. "They can think what they jolly well like," she announced with a fine abandon of recklessness. Feeling like watchers beside a jury-room door, the two bridesmaids kept vigil, harboring contrary hopes.
The result stands nine for the plaintiff and three for the defendant. They light their cigars, for they came well prepared for the tedious hours in the jury-room. The nine men look at the other three in disgust, the three look at the nine with contempt and then they begin to argue.
Tolstoi according to Captain Marshall, I should be inclined to define him; but I must give Mr. Tree his full credit in the matter. When he crucifies himself, so to speak, symbolically, across the door of the jury-room, remarking in his slowest manner: "The bird flutters no longer; I must atone, I must atone!" one is, in every sense, alone with the actor. Mr.
The second alternative for the judge is to reserve decision on the motion and to let the jury go into the jury-room and worry about the verdict for an hour or two, while the judge has the hidden intention of perhaps deciding that they need not spend any time at all about the matter.
At twelve o'clock the next day during a recess of the court a loud knock was heard upon the door which led to the jury-room. Instantly every voice was hushed and every eye was strained to watch the countenances of these arbiters of fate who slowly entered and took their seats.
Brockett guessed the order he had wished to give, and the big key slid around in the old-fashioned lock of the jury-room door. Heavy-visaged and hesitating, the twelve men filed into court, and at sight of them John North's heart seemed to die within his breast. He no longer hoped nor doubted, he knew their verdict, he was caught in some intricate web of circumstance!
But Madam Macnamara was charmed, and the autograph remained afterwards for two generations among the archives of the family; and, with great smiles and much complacency, she told Lord Carrick-o'-Gunniol all about it, just outside the grand jury-room, where she met him during the assize week; and, being a man of a weak and considerate nature, rather kind, and very courteous although his smile was very near exploding into a laugh, as he gave the good lady snuff out of his own box he was yet very much concerned and vexed, and asked his lady, when he went home, how she could have induced old Mrs.
He was conscious of it and seemed to say by his demeanor: "Never mind your expressions of devotion," and brushed past the crowd. Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.
Meanwhile the great argument had been begun in the jury-room, and all the points that had been meditatively speculated upon in the jury-box were now being openly discussed. It is amazingly interesting to see how a jury will waver and speculate in a case like this how curious and uncertain is the process by which it makes up its so-called mind.
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