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Returned from the Court already? Is the trial over?

Ay; thank God for it! and our master is a free man again.

O, rare news! rare news! Let us run and tell everybody. Acquitted,—acquitted; not guilty?

To be sure he is. How can a man be condemned when there is no evidence against him?

I knew it would be so; I knew he would be acquitted: I knew he had no more done it than I had done it. And yet, for all that, all last night, through my sleep, there was such a