"But, for all that, Fauntleroy was a friend of mine, and in that character I shall always acknowledge him boldly to my dying day.

I have a tenderness for his memory, though he violated a sacred trust, and die d for it on the gallows.

Don't look shocked, Mr.
Wendell.

I will tell you, and our other friends here, if they will let me, why I feel that tenderness, which looks so strange and so discreditable in your eyes.

It is rather a curious anecdote, sir, and has an interest, I think, for all observers of human nature quite apart from its connection with the unhappy man of whom we have been talking.
You young gentlemen," continued Mr.Trowbridge, addressing himself to us juniors, "have heard of Fauntleroy, though he sinned and suffered, and shocked all England long before your time ?" We answered that we had certainly heard of him as one of the famous criminals of his day.