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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Why now I take it you must be jesting" at length exclaimed the Aid-de-Camp doubtingly, dropping at the same time the chair upon the floor, yet keeping it before him as though not quite safe in the presence of this self-confessed anthropophagos; "you surely don't mean to say you kill and pickle every unfortunate traveller that comes by here.
Suppose the hundred thousand men thereupon, very quietly, without any show of violence, should each proceed to steal something and then announce the intention to accept the consequence by pleading guilty. It would embarrass the State and the reigning powers, would it not? What could society do with a hundred thousand self-confessed thieves to take care of? It could not lock them up.
Colonel Sevier, in whose command Richard and the old borderer had fought in the hilltop battle, undertook to explain. I stood self-confessed as the bearer of despatches from Lord Cornwallis to Major Ferguson, he said, and I had claimed that the orders had been so altered as to delay the major's retreat and so to bring on the battle.
To THIS man he betrayed his weakness. In his bloodshot eyes there was a hungering look as he watched Carvel the self-confessed outlaw. And Jim Carvel again held out his hand much nearer this time. "You poor devil," he said, the smile going out of his face. "You poor devil!" The words were like a caress to Baree the first he had known since the loss of Nepeese and Pierrot.
He accepts his life as a rudderless ship, drifting on the ocean of time. He has no compass, no chart, no known port to which he is sailing. His self-confessed inferiority to all nature is shown in his existence of constant surrender. It is not, calmness. The man who is calm has his course in life clearly marked on his chart. His hand is ever on the helm.
For the time, then, they may be left to progress uninterruptedly to safety and not very prompt enlightenment; the flight of the self-confessed murderer calls for more immediate attention. Probably, after the first moment of suspense, and when he was sure that escape was still not utterly impracticable, he intended to cross the park to the northwest and climb the boundary wall.
Why, I've seen weaklings and self-confessed failures and even ninnies go into them trenches and come out oh yes, plenty of them do come out men. Men that have got close enough down to the facts of things to feel new realizations of what life means come over them. Men that have gotten back their pep, their ambitions, their unselfishness.
And all that we require of the Earl of Mangelwurzelshire is that he should have fifty thousand a year and hunt the country. O you pride of all Snobland! O you crawling, truckling, self-confessed lackeys and parasites!
I can't believe it, and yet I've got to believe it. That man Hathaway is a self-confessed criminal, but he was telling the truth about the law-breaking trickery that is going on; he wouldn't be idiotic enough to lie and then give me a chance to prove the lie. And he didn't come to me of his own volition; he was sent sent to break me down, and sent by.... Oh, dad, dad! how could you do it!"
He laughed at her and playfully accused her of being tired of him, of being homesick. Nevertheless, he was troubled. He had seen the newspaper accounts of the murder of Colonel Grand, and he had been horrified, immeasurably shocked, to find that Dick Cronk was the self-confessed assassin.
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