In the case of a reprehensible murder I know this would be considered an aggravation of the offence.

Of course, it is an open question whether all the murders are not reprehensible; but let that pass.

To my own mind I should have been indeed deserving of punishment had I rushed out and slain the waits in a moment of fury.

If one were to give way to his passion every time he is interrupted in his work or his sleep by bawlers our thoroughfares would soon be choked with the dead.

No one values human life or understands its sacredness more than I do.