His was the most infamous in the list of the family crimes--and he escaped, without answering to a court of law or a court of honor for what he had done.
"Some of us come of one breed, and some of another.

There is the breed from which I drew the breath of life.

What do you think of me now ?" VI "I looked back over the past years of my existence, from the time of my earliest recollections to the miserable day when I opened the sealed packet.
"What wholesome influences had preserved me, so far, from moral contamination by the vile blood that ran in my veins?
There were two answers to that question which, in some degree, quieted my mind.

In the first place, resembling my good mother physically, I might hope to have resembled her morally.

In the second place, the happy accidents of my career had preserved me from temptation, at more than one critical period of my life.