You know quite well that you carry all before you with your eloquence.

If--if you couldn't get him acquitted, you could get him lenient treatment.

You could save his life from utter ruin." She clasped and unclasped her hands in nervous excitement.

Her face was piteous in its strain and pathos.
And still Field looked unmoved upon her distress.
"I am afraid I can't help you," he said.

"My eloquence would need a very strong incentive in such a case as this to balance my lack of sympathy." "What do you mean by--incentive ?" she said, her voice very low.