"I don't ask it of the rest of the world.

I hardly expect any one to give me credit for good impulses or even for speaking the plain truth after the discovery which has been made of my treacherous attitude towards these two virtuous and devoted women.

But you--if you are to act as my counsel--must take this denial from me as gospel truth.
I may disappoint you in other ways.

I may try you and often make you regret that you undertook my case, but on this fact you may safely pin your faith.

She was dead before I touched her.