But I cannot conceal from you, who are a true friend of the boy's, what I should certainly tell to no one else, namely, that I fear that his mother's evidence will be terribly against him.
"She has always been prejudiced against him.

She is a silly, selfish woman.

So far as I could judge she cared little for her first husband, who was a thousand times too good for her; but strangely enough she appears to have had something like a real affection for this man Mulready, who, between ourselves, I believe, in spite of his general popularity in the town, to have been a bad fellow.

One doesn't like to speak ill of the dead under ordinary circumstances, but his character is an important element in the question before us.

Of course among my poorer patients I hear things of which people in general are ignorant, and it is certain that there was no employer in this part of the country so thoroughly and heartily detested by his men." "I agree with you cordially," Mr.Porson said.