Your father, if I know him, would refuse to pay the fine; and to prison you would go, with the taint of it to lie upon your good name forever.

The penalty would be wrong, outrageous, ruinous; no rich man would submit to it, but a poor man must.

Is this the truth, Daniel, or is it what it ought to be--a scandalous misdescription of the laws of England ?" "No, sir; it is true enough, and too true, I am afraid.

I never thought of consequences, when I used my axe.

I only thought of what was right, and fair, and honest, as between a man who has a right, and one who takes it from him." "That is the natural way to look at things, but never permitted in this country.