And now she had so easily accepted his guilt! These thoughts robbed him of sleep, and the confinement and lack of exercise made him nervous.

The energetic spirit, arrested at the very instant of beginning cherished enterprises, and shut out from hope of ever undertaking them, preyed upon itself, and Albert had a morbid longing for the State's prison, where he might weary himself with toil.
His counsel was Mr.Conger.

Mr.Conger was not a great jurist.

Of the philosophy of law he knew nothing.

For the sublime principles of equity and the great historic developments that underlie the conventions which enter into the administration of public justice, Mr.Conger cared nothing.