And now the slayer in his turn is so upset that he is like to kill himself; and if he does, the girl will do as much, I fear.
And all this we could no more help than the earthquake of the year before last." "It is very unhappy," said Dick; "but since the man is dead, and cannot be brought to life again, and since the slayer had no malice in him, I cannot for the life of me see why he shouldn't get over it before long.
Besides, it was the right man that was killed and not the wrong.

Why should a man brood over a mere accident for ever?
And the girl ?" "As to her," said Walter, "the whole thing seems to have inspired her with terror rather than grief.

What you say about the man is true, or it should be; but then, you see, the excitement and jealousy that was the prelude to this tragedy had made an evil and feverish element round about him, from which he does not seem to be able to escape.

However, we have advised him to go away--in fact, to cross the seas; but he is in such a state that I do not think he _can_ go unless someone _takes_ him, and I think it will fall to my lot to do so; which is scarcely a cheerful outlook for me." "O, you will find a certain kind of interest in it," said Dick.

"And of course he _must_ soon look upon the affair from a reasonable point of view sooner or later." "Well, at any rate," quoth Walter, "now that I have eased my mind by making you uncomfortable, let us have an end of the subject for the present.