"Nay; I can not vouch for being possessed of that.

I have only heard it from your grandmother: the counsel for the prosecution is scarcely a reliable authority for the facts of a case." "And I have only heard the defense," said Yorke.

"Let me now, for the first time, know what was urged upon the other side, and so weightily," the young man gloomily added, "that it made my mother an outcast, and myself a disgraced and penniless lad.

You see, I know exactly what was the end of it all, so do not fear to shock me." "There can be no disgrace where one has not one's self to blame," urged the chaplain.
"You think so ?" broke in the other, bitterly.

"What! not when one's mother is to blame, for instance?
Well, please begin." "I had much rather not," said the chaplain.