11/27 The rogues must have had some plunder with him. Could we but run across them, Clarke, it would be a great and grand thing.' 'It would indeed,' said I heartily. 'What greater privilege than to execute justice upon such cowardly murderers!' 'Pooh! pooh!' he cried. 'Justice is a slippery dame, and hath a two-edged sword in her hand. We may have enough of justice in our character as rebels to give us a surfeit of it. |