We may not be openly acknowledged as Pets, but we all know, by pleasant experience, that we are treated like them.
The trial was deeply affecting.

My defense--or rather my barrister's--was the simple truth.

It was impossible to overthrow the facts against us; so we honestly owned that I got into the scrape through love for Alicia.

My counsel turned this to the best possible sentimental account.

He cried; the ladies cried; the jury cried; the judge cried; and Mr.Batterbury, who had desperately come to see the trial, and know the worst, sobbed with such prominent vehemence, that I believe him, to this day, to have greatly influenced the verdict.