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Gentlemen, the life of this lovely and once happy girl, this now stricken woman, is in your hands." The jury were risibly affected. Half the court room was in tears. If a vote of both spectators and jury could have been taken then, the verdict would have been, "let her go, she has suffered enough." But the district attorney had the closing argument.
At the same time a great light was remarked by Idos of Yokohama and Pegadiadis of Athens. The storm burst upon us six weeks later, about the time of the summer sales. As Wenus approached opposition, Dr. Jelli of Guava set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the intelligence of a huge explosion of laughing gas moving risibly towards the earth.
To us, the elephant's trunk was burlesque, its walk risibly clumsy; the eagle and the kite seemed to us, as they sat, to have a severe appearance and a haughty glance; the apes, picking lice from one another and eating the vermin, were, to our eyes, contemptible and ridiculous at the same time; but Nature took everything equally seriously, neither sought nor avoided beauty, and to her one being was not more central than another.
Gentlemen, the life of this lovely and once happy girl, this now stricken woman, is in your hands." The jury were risibly affected. Half the court room was in tears. If a vote of both spectators and jury could have been taken then, the verdict would have been, "let her go, she has suffered enough." But the district attorney had the closing argument.
This mention of my mercurial friend brought back so vividly to my mind the recent scene in our berth that I was as the newspaper reporters say "risibly affected," a circumstance which did not fail to attract general attention. Captain Brisac looked both disconcerted and annoyed. "What is it, Mr Chester? What have I said to afford you so much amusement?" he asked.
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