With the other, the trade of crime was adopted strictly in subservience to the dictates of ill-regulated desires and emotions, suffering defeat in their hope of indulgence, and stimulating to a morbid action which became a disease.
The references of Munro were always addressed to the petty gains; and the miserly nature, thus perpetually exhibiting itself, at the expense of all other emotions, was, in fact, the true influence which subjected him almost to the sole dictation of his accomplice, in whom a somewhat lofty distaste for such a peculiarity had occasioned a manner and habit of mind, the superiority of which was readily felt by the other.

Still, we must do the landlord the justice to say that he had no such passion for bloodshed as characterized his companion.
"Why strike again!" was the response of Rivers.

"You talk like a child.
Would you have had him live to blab?
Saw you not that he knew us both?
Are you so green as to think, if suffered to escape, his tongue or hands would have been idle?
You should know better.

But the fact is, he could not have lived.

The first blow was fatal; and, if I had deliberated for an instant, I should have followed the suggestions of your humanity--I should have withheld the second, which merely terminated his agony." "It was a rash and bloody deed, and I would we had made sure of your man before blindly rushing into these unnecessary risks.