Not one of you can despise him more heartily than I do.

Go on, gentlemen--go on!' But one man present took the speaker at his word.

That man was the lawyer who had already undertaken the defence of the Countess.
'I stand alone in my opinion,' he said, 'and I am not ashamed of repeating it in anybody's hearing.

I consider the Countess Narona to be a cruelly-treated woman.

Why shouldn't she be Lord Montbarry's wife?
Who can say she has a mercenary motive in marrying him ?' Montbarry's brother turned sharply on the speaker.