He would certainly be condemned to hard labour for five or six years, which would be a very wholesome lesson for him." "Grandfather!" screamed the tortured child.

This last allusion dissolved her voice in tears.

She fell down on her knees before him and shed innocent tears enough on his hand to wash out all the old specks and stains on it.
"I am glad to see those tears, my dear little girl, they show that you have confidence in me.

I am not a tiger who eats little children, what I have said _might_ happen but I don't say it necessarily _must_.

I don't want to be cruel and vindictive.