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But a few minutes, dear Baron.

Not yet gone!

Did you expect him to go?

My understanding had left me: I knew not what to expect.

Hush! the Judges are preparing to pronounce sentence.

Is it for life or death? (Averting his eyes hastily.) It is not life.

Baron Van Maurice, having duly considered the evidence against you, and that also which has been produced in your favour, we feel ourselves constrained to pronounce upon you the sentence of the law. And forasmuch as murders have, of late years, become more frequent amongst people of noble condition, we see good to revive, upon this occasion, a law which has been too long laid aside.—Maurice Van Maurice, for this atrocious murder which you have