I have found it so, in many years of familiar intercourse with them.

But his last act is the one deserving unqualified condemnation.

To tear a mother from the bedside of her dead child--to incarcerate her in a prison, while the hands of strangers were performing the last sad rites over the dead, is an act that Christianity could never believe, were the evidence not before us, too forcible for denial, too truthful for contradiction.

It is an act that calls for withering rebuke, but we dismiss him with the belief that on the coming of that inevitable _Hereafter_, he will receive the punishment he so well merits.
"My remarks are now concluded, and the prisoner is discharged from custody." There was deep silence for several minutes, during which Harry looked anxiously in the crowd for his friend; but Alfred was nowhere to be seen.

Mrs.Wentworth retained her passive look of indifference, and took no further notice of the curious crowd, which gazed upon her with hearts full of pity and commiseration.