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I ascribe this to the state of my mind

In the mean time, strange as it may seem, here, in prison, subject to innumerable hardships, and in the assured expectation of a sentence of death, I recovered my health. I ascribe this to the state of my mind, which was now changed, from perpetual anxiety, terror, and alarm, the too frequent inmates of a […]

Hope died away in the bottom of my heart

nike shox torch gold white cheap retro jordans Hope died away in the bottom of my heart. Shut up for the first night in my dungeon, I was seized at intervals with temporary frenzy. From time to time, I rent the universal silence with the roarings of unsupportable despair. But this was a transient distraction. […]

by how many links society had a hold upon me

“Yes, sir, I do.— But, if I did not, pray what witnesses have you of the murder?” This question staggered me. “None. But I believe I can make out a circumstantial proof, of a nature to force attention from the most indifferent hearer.” “So I thought.— Officers, take him from the bar!” Such was the […]

are you such an ass as to suppose

“Give me leave, sir,” rejoined the magistrate, with an air of affected moderation, “to ask you two questions. Were you any way aiding, abetting, or contributing to this murder?” “No.” “And pray, sir, who is this Mr. Falkland? and what may have been the nature of your connection with him?” “Mr. Falkland is a gentleman […]

I was of course easily identified; and

I was of course easily identified; and, this being the whole with which the magistrates before whom I now stood thought themselves concerned, they were proceeding to make out an order for my being conducted back to my own county. I suspended the despatch of this measure by observing that I had something to disclose. […]