The whole court, every spectator, man and woman, all for a time were mute, whilst their hearts drank in the delicious draught of admiration which such beauty created.

After having raised her veil, she looked around the court with a kind of wonder, after which her eyes rested on Reilly, and immediately her lids dropped, for she feared that she had done wrong in looking upon him.

This made many of those hearts who were interested in his fate sink, and wonder why such treachery should be associated with features that breathed only of angelic goodness and humanity.
"Miss Folliard," said the leading counsel engaged against Reilly, "I am happy to hear that you regret some past occurrences that took place with respect to you and the prisoner at the bar." "Yes," she replied, in a voice that was melody itself, "I do regret them." Fox kept his eye fixed upon her, after which he whispered something to one or two of his brother lawyers; they shook their heads, and immediately set themselves to hear and note her examination.
"Miss Folliard, you are aware of the charges which have placed the prisoner at the bar of justice and his country ?" "Not exactly; I have heard little of it beyond the fact of his incarceration." "He stands there charged with two very heinous crimes--one of them, the theft or robbery of a valuable packet of jewels, your father's property." "Oh, no," she replied, "they are my own exclusive property--not my father's.

They were the property of my dear mother, who, on her death-bed, bequeathed them to me, in the presence of my father himself; and I always considered them as mine." "But they were found upon the person of the prisoner ?" "Oh, yes; but that is very easily explained.

It is no secret now, that, in order to avoid a marriage which my father was forcing on me with Sir Robert Whitecraft, I chose the less evil, and committed myself to the honor of Mr.Reilly.If I had not done so I should have committed suicide, I think, rather than marry Whitecraft--a man so utterly devoid of principle and delicacy that he sent an abandoned female into my father's house in the capacity of my maid and also as a spy upon my conduct." This astounding fact created an immense sensation throughout the court, and the lawyer who was examining her began to feel that her object in coming there was to give evidence in favor of Reilly, and not against him.