But should you not get over this hurt, I should not like you to go to your grave believing that I had done you this great wrong.

I speak to you as to a dying man, and having no interest in deceiving you, and I swear to you before Heaven that I know absolutely nothing of this.
I, too, may fall from a rebel shot before long, and I thank God that I can meet you before Him as an innocent man in this matter.
"I must be going, for I see the doctor coming to fetch me.

Goodbye, lad, we may not meet again, though I trust we shall; but if not, I give you my full forgiveness for that shot you fired at me.

It was the result of a strange mistake, but had I acted as you believed, I should have well deserved the death you intended for me." "Confound it, Mallett, there seems no end of mischief from your visit here.

In the first place, you were nearly knocked over yourself, and now there is this man lying insensible.