"Don't _yet_ condemn me.

_I_ am guilty, not of _this_, but of something as bad.

I admit I was tempted; but if the money really is all gone, it is _not_ I who am the thief." "You must know, Eric, that the suspicion against you is very strong, and rests on some definite facts." "Yes, I know it must.

Yet, oh, do be merciful, and don't yet condemn me.
I have denied it.

Am I a liar Monty?
Oh Monty, Monty, believe me in this." But the boys still stood silent.
"Well, then," he said, "I will tell you all.