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His own conscience was clear. He was doing business within the limits set for him by the law and the Post Office authorities, which had once investigated the "Pills" and given them a clean bill. Milly Neal should not put the onus of her own recklessness and immorality upon him. Nevertheless, he was glad that Belford Couch was coming on; and, by the way, he must telephone a dispatch to him.
"On the other hand, what more feasible than that the old manservant, watching her place it there, abstracted the bulk of the money a large sum, no doubt and afterwards, in order to conceal his crime, shot his mistress in such circumstances as to place the onus of the crime upon her midnight visitor?" "That the affair was very cleverly planned there is no doubt," said The Sparrow.
"Ha!" said the secretary, his eye beaming triumph. "This persistent denial will avail thee naught," said the judge, "'twill only bring thee torture." "Torture an innocent man! 'Tis monstrous!" the physician protested. "Any tyro in the logics will tell thee that the onus of proving lies with the accuser." "Tush! tush! This is no University. Executioner, do thy work."
"It is perfectly well-known that Germany is not in a position to fetch munitions from America. Therefore, I say that there is no neutrality in supplying one side in the war with goods which the other is unable to procure." "Then you place upon America the onus of Germany's naval inferiority," Pamela remarked drily. "Germany's maritime inferiority does not exist," Mr. Fischer protested.
And, indeed, when you come to think of my breaking with Eli Kirke, 'twas the witch trial that drove me to the wilderness. There was yet a respite. But the Church still dominated the civil courts, and a transfer of the case meant that the Church would throw the onus of executing sentence on those lay figures who were the puppets of a Pharisaical oligarchy. There was no time to appeal to England.
"As you say, Signor Marchese," he resumed, "that Signor Ludovico should have been with La Bianca in the forest, affords no proof sufficient to convict him of being the author of this crime; although the fact of his being the last person in whose company she was ever seen alive, does suffice, in a certain degree, to throw on him the onus of showing that he is innocent of it.
"The onus of such language," he observed coolly and with dignity, "falls not on him to whom it is addressed, but on him who utters it. Yet one who professes to have been himself a soldier, must see in this very circumstance a proof of my innocence.
Flint had thrown upon him the onus of the first move in a game which the railroad president was used to playing every day. The dragon was on his home ground and had the choice of weapons. "I do not wish to bother you long," said Austen. "No bother," answered Mr. Flint, "no bother to make the acquaintance of the son of my old friend, Hilary Vane. Sit down sit down.
None of that, now; the onus probandi is with you, scoundrel. Da. None of that, now; it is with you. Zeus. At this game ours is much the better man louder-voiced, rougher-tempered. Good, Timocles; stick to invective; that is your strong point; once you get off that, he will hook and hold you up like a fish. Ti. I solemnly swear I will not answer first. Da.
The minister was Vox et praeterea nihil. He was the only musical instrument permitted, and on him devolved the whole onus of making the service attractive. He succeeded. He was helped by the sociability of the gathering for the Synagogue was virtually a Jewish Club, the focus of the sectarian life.
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