I have had a good many bad characters before me during the year and a half that I have sat upon the bench, but I am bound to say that I never saw one who was to my eyes so thoroughly evil as this young fellow.

I don't think," he added with a smile, "that I should feel quite comfortable myself if he were acquitted; it will be a long time before I shall forget the expression of his face when he said to me this morning, 'You will repent this night's work, Thorndyke.'" "You don't mean that you think he would do you any harm, Mr.Thorndyke ?" "Well, I should not care to meet him in a lonely place if he was armed and I was not.

But you need not be nervous, Mrs.Cunningham, there is not the smallest chance of his being out for years; and by that time his blood will have had time to cool down, and he will have learnt, at any rate, that crimes cannot be committed in this country with impunity." "It is all very shocking," the lady said.

"What will poor Mr.Bastow do?
I should think that he would not like to remain as clergyman here, where everyone knows about it." "That must be for him to decide," the Squire said; "but if he wishes to resign I certainly shall not press him to continue to hold the living.
He is a very old friend of mine.

My father presented the living to him when I was nine or ten years old, and I may say I saw him daily up to the time when I went down into Sussex.