"I have heard of one or two.

One let an innocent man die for him." "How base!" exclaimed the boy.
"Yes, it was bad," Austin acquiesced.
"Bad!" Richard scorned the poor contempt.

"How I would have spurned him! He was a coward!" "I believe he pleaded the feelings of his family in his excuse, and tried every means to get the man off.

I have read also in the confessions of a celebrated philosopher, that in his youth he committed some act of pilfering, and accused a young servant-girl of his own theft, who was condemned and dismissed for it, pardoning her guilty accuser." "What a coward!" shouted Richard.

"And he confessed it publicly ?" "You may read it yourself." "He actually wrote it down, and printed it ?" "You have the book in your father's library.