So much for the
Indictment! I have done with it--and I am rejoiced to be done with it.
The Jury had each formed a different view(Long before the
indictment was read), And they all spoke at once, so that none of them knew One word that the others had said.
Aroused from studying the
indictment by this appeal, the attorney got up, and after a short dialogue with the hunter in a low voice, he informed the court that they were ready to proceed.
"But to return to my
indictment. If modern man's producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, why then, in the United States to-day, are there fifteen million people who are not properly sheltered and properly fed?
But there is another part of the
indictment which says that he teaches men not to receive the gods whom the city receives, and has other new gods.
To this
indictment, Christopher Nubbles, in a low and trembling voice, pleaded Not Guilty; and here, let those who are in the habit of forming hasty judgments from appearances, and who would have had Christopher, if innocent, speak out very strong and loud, observe, that confinement and anxiety will subdue the stoutest hearts; and that to one who has been close shut up, though it be only for ten or eleven days, seeing but stone walls and a very few stony faces, the sudden entrance into a great hall filled with life, is a rather disconcerting and startling circumstance.
And so I draw the
indictment home to John Barleycorn.
Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an
indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
I shall never forget the
indictment of the Senior Subaltern by his wife.
The grim old man of Torn had sat motionless throughout this
indictment, his face, somewhat pale, was drawn into lines of malevolent hatred and rage, but he permitted Father Claude to finish without interruption.
The reading of the
indictment was got through, as it always is, without any incident.
"So, then, they drew up the
indictments before the king was taken?"