I have a horror of crime and all violence; besides, the young lady--she awakened my deepest admiration and reverence.

I,"-- again he stopped; again he burst forth,--"I would sooner have died myself than seen such angel graces laid low.

Let my emotion be proof of what I say.

It was a man of the hardest heart who killed her." "It would seem so." It was the Coroner who spoke.

He was nonplussed; and Mr.Gryce no less so.