Voices have saluted your ear, in which you imagine yourself to have recognized mine, and that of a detected villain.

The sentiments expressed were not allowed to outweigh the casual or concerted resemblance of voice.
Sentiments the reverse of all those whose influence my former life had attested, denoting a mind polluted by grovelling vices, and entering into compact with that of a thief and a murderer.

The nature of these sentiments did not enable you to detect the cheat, did not suggest to you the possibility that my voice had been counterfeited by another.
"You were precipitate and prone to condemn.

Instead of rushing on the impostors, and comparing the evidence of sight with that of hearing, you stood aloof, or you fled.

My innocence would not now have stood in need of vindication, if this conduct had been pursued.