This is a fearful crime you would commit, and severely punishable by the law.

You may excuse it to yourself, because you have an end in view which seems to justify the means; but the excuse will not avail you with others.

You have said that in a conflict with one so cunning and unscrupulous as our noble son-in-law, you are compelled to fight him with his own weapons--to meet trick with trick, manoevre with manoeuvre; but take my word for it, you would more easily defeat him by straight-forward means.

Be ruled by me in this one instance.

Abandon a scheme which must inevitably lead to consequences I shudder to contemplate; and let this fabricated confession be destroyed." "Give it me," she cried, snatching the paper from him.