I should say that he is right.

He may be blasphemous, but he certainly is not licentious, in the ordinary sense of the word; and you do not find him pandering to the bad passions of mankind." I ask my readers to notice these clear and emphatic sentences, for we shall recur to them in the next chapter.
The jury retired at twenty minutes past twelve.

At three minutes past five they were discharged, being unable to agree.

It was a glorious victory.

Acquittal was hopeless, but no verdict amounted practically to the same thing.