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Larmer had to do was to retain counsel, and he determined to secure as big a man as possible to conduct the defence. The case had assumed greater importance than would attach to an ordinary assault upon a wife by her husband. It was magnified by the surrounding circumstances, so that the interest felt in it was legitimate enough, apart from the spurious notoriety which had been added to it.
"Yes, but I touched the hand that held the dagger." Larmer looked at his friend and client in a dubious way, as though he could not feel quite sure of his sanity. "My dear Walcott," he said, "you are out of tune upset by all this miserable business; and no wonder. You say you touched the hand that held the dagger that stabbed the woman. We know you did; what then?
Cunningham in a small oak scrub. They had distinctly seen the track of the dog with him, and that of his own steps beside those of the horse, as if he had been leading it. April 25. Early this morning I despatched Mr. Larmer and The Doctor, Muirhead and Whiting, supplied with four days' provisions and water.
Larmer, assistant surveyor, there were twenty-one men; carpenters, bullock drivers, blacksmith, shoemaker, &c. While still on the outskirts of settlement, an unhappy fate overtook Cunningham, the botanist.
He could not ask outright if there had been any communication with his sister, but that was what he was thinking about. "I hope we may rely upon you," said Mr. Larmer. "I don't know. I am not sure that you can. This is, as you said, a perfectly informal conversation, and I may frankly tell you that what you ask is out of the question. I hope you will think no more about it." Mr.
There was vengeance in my soul if not in my intention. Who is to discriminate between motives so near allied? Your friendship may acquit me, Larmer, but your instincts as a lawyer cannot; and at any rate, I cannot acquit myself of having entertained the feeling out of which crimes of violence naturally spring.
Larmer precisely how the whole thing had happened how his wife had brought the dagger with her, how she had raised it in her hand, how he seized her wrist, and how he had never touched the weapon himself until he drew it from the wound as she lay on the floor. "They won't believe me," he said.
Larmer was waxing impatient almost indignant at his client's tone. "So I do, entirely. Assuredly I have no desire to go to prison." "Then for goodness' sake don't talk to anyone else the nonsense you have been talking to me!" "I am not likely. I have known you since we were boys together, and I wanted to relieve my mind.
Larmer with the rest of the party to encamp there, I proceeded eastward towards the dry creek whose course I soon intercepted, and I hurried the bullock-drivers along its bed downwards until, after crossing many a hopeful but dry hole, they begged that the cattle might be allowed to rest.
Larmer he is an animal without manners. But no matter. I am glad you are reasonable, my friend. You buy a respite for a few weeks. I shall forget you with all my heart until I have a migraine, and suddenly remember you again. But it is too cheap; I cannot live decently on this paltry sum. Good-bye, my child and gare aux-migraines!" She was gone, and Alan was left alone.
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