Hugh Carnaby was gratified by the verdict of _felo de se_.

He applauded the jury for their most unexpected honesty.

One had taken for granted the foolish tag about temporary madness, which would have been an insult to everybody's common-sense.
'It's a pity they no longer bury at four cross-roads, with a stake in his inside.

(Where's that from?
I remember it somehow.) The example wouldn't be bad.' 'You're rather early-Victorian,' replied Sibyl, who by this term was wont to signify barbarism or crudity in art, letters, morality, or social feeling.

'Besides, there's no merit in the verdict.