People should not go to law over trifles.

Still, the jury must remember that, without exception, all human life was sacred.

After some further remarks from the judge, the jury (who deliberate for rather more than three-quarters of an hour) return a verdict of guilty.

The prisoner is sentenced to a fine of five florins, or three days' imprisonment.
[Illustration] [Illustration] CHAPTER XXVIII.
GILRAY'S DREAM.
Conceive me (said Gilray, with glowing face) invited to write a criticism of the Critics' Dramatic Society for the _Standard_.
I select the _Standard_, because that paper has treated me most cruelly.

However, I loathe them all.