Much blame rests with you, maiden." "The whole blame is mine!" she exclaimed.

"I confess my error--my crime--and will atone for it willingly with my life, provided he be spared.

If a sacrifice must be made, let me be the victim." "There is no sacrifice, and no victim," returned Sir Thomas gravely, though he was not unmoved by her filial devotion.

"There is an offender, and there will be justice; and justice must be satisfied.

Inexorable as fate, her dread sentences cannot be averted." "O, honourable Sir! you may one day recall those words; for which of us can hold himself free from offence?
My father is not guilty in the eyes of Heaven; or if he be, I am equally culpable, since I ought to have prevented the commission of the crime.