7/18 If the jury have done him an injustice--if he _is_ innocent--let him prove it.' That is what the world thinks and says of me. That is what your friends will think and say of me. The time is coming, Valeria, when you--even You--will feel that your friends have reason to appeal to on their side, and that you have no reason on yours." "That time will never come!" I answered, warmly. "You wrong me, you insult me, in thinking it possible!" He put down my hand from him, and drew back a step, with a bitter smile. |