Do you always repay good for evil and turn your check to the smiter, Mr.Bacon ?" "If you put it in that way, I fear I don't." "Do you know anybody who does ?" After a moment's reflection I was again compelled to answer in the negative.

I could not call to mind a single individual of my acquaintance who acted on the principle of returning good for evil.
"Well, then, if I am no better than other people, I am no worse.

Yet, after all, I think I did well to let him go.

Had I killed the brigand, there would have been a coroner's inquest, and questions asked which might have been troublesome to answer, and he has brothers and cousins.

If I could destroy the entire brood! Did you see the look he gave me as he went away?
It meant murder.