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Redgrave's housekeeper could not be found; the self-accused man stood or fell by his own testimony; nothing was submitted to the court beyond the fact of Redgrave's death, and Hugh Carnaby's explanation of how it came about. Nothing of direct evidence; indirect, in the shape of witness to character, was abundantly forthcoming, and from 'people of importance.
Some one said a thousand pounds, in the terrorized voice of a delinquent. "A thousand pounds," repeated the auctioneer, paused, sipped, and smacked. "Guineas," said another voice self-accused of iniquity. "A thousand and fifty," said the auctioneer. Then there was a long interval, an interval that tightened the nerves of the assembly. "Now, ladies and gentlemen," the auctioneer adjured.
About the empty cabins and the barns, working on the farms, wading the mud and water of the river bank, or tingling with cold on the ice went two Dannies. The one a dull, listless man, mechanically forcing a tired, overworked body to action, and the other a self-accused murderer. "I am responsible for the whole thing," he told himself many times a day. "I always humored Jimmy.
And inasmuch as calamitous events, such as the appearance of comets, earthquakes or pestilences, are usually the signal for great moral reforms, doubtless many a promise of a purer life was registered in that hour of terror by those self-accused by their quickened consciences.
Her love for him he would never know; now he knew only her crime, but presently, when she would be convicted and condemned, confronted with a few scraps of burned paper and a torn letter-case, then he would know that she had stood her trial, self-accused, and meant to die for him. Therfore the past few moments were now wholly hers.
But to the man self-accused of robbing her of love and life, this sweet reflected glory from the other side of the dark gateway brought no consolation. In that silent room, flooded with cold moonlight, Edward Macleod stood alone in the dead girl's presence, and felt the bitter waves of remorse sweep over his soul.
Redgrave's house, and found that gentleman lying dead in a room that opened upon the garden. Redgrave with his fist, knocking him down, and, as it proved, killing him on the spot. Up to the present moment no further details were obtainable, but it was believed that the self-accused assailant had put himself in communication with the police.
She had moreover to do penance, for a wrong committed; and just as children will pinch themselves, pleased up to the verge of unendurable pain, so do sentimentalists find a keen relish in performing secret penance for self-accused offences. Thus they become righteous to their own hearts, and evade, as they hope, the public scourge.
No, no; the hungry man might be fed, and go his way unseen, untrumpeted there would be no need of this specious plausibility of humanity which proclaims aloud Go and drown yourself; stand self-accused and condemned before your Creator; and if there be but a spark of vitality yet remaining, we’ll call you back to life again a starving suicide!
Mortimer if you knew I mean, he is under strong suspicion, more than strong suspicion, for he is practically self-accused of having stolen a sum of money from the bank. In fact, I'm not sure that it wasn't from your father he really stole it." "I do know of this terrible thing," she answered. "I shook hands with him because I believe him innocent." "You know more than we do?"
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