The door of mercy is closed on me, Squire.

I've committed the unpardonable sin!" The old Squire saw that no effort to cheer Rufus that did not go to the root of his misery would avail.

Sitting down beside him, he said: "A great many of us sometimes fear that we have committed the unpardonable sin.

But there is one sure way of knowing whether a person has committed it or not.

I once knew a man who in a drunken brawl had killed another.