At any rate, it would have availed nothing.
I had been tried, convicted, and sentenced in my absence, and it was vain to hope for pardon.

These is something in righteous indignation that inevitably carries respect with it.

I fully sympathized with Mr.Haight.

I had cheated and outraged his firm and I knew it.

I had no excuse to offer and he was entitled to his burst of excoriation.