Then he walked the floor with long, deliberate strides, his chin in his hand, and still the audience waited.

At last he returned to his throne, seated himself, and began impressively: "Gentlemen, I feel the great responsibility that rests upon me this day.
This is no ordinary case.

On the contrary it is plain that it is the most solemn and awful that ever man was called upon to decide.
Gentlemen, I have listened attentively to the evidence, and have perceived that the weight of it, the overwhelming weight of it, is in favor of the plaintiff Hyde.

I have listened also to the remarks of counsel, with high interest--and especially will I commend the masterly and irrefutable logic of the distinguished gentleman who represents the plaintiff.

But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this.