“Do you plead
guilty or not
guilty?” said the Judge.
It is decreed of fate, and therefore I am not
guilty in this respect.
"And besides," continued Rosa, "the people want to find you
guilty. But whether innocent or
guilty, your trial begins to-morrow, and the day after you will be condemned.
If he be
guilty, he is as
guilty in his own house as anywhere else."
therefore let us forthwith bring him in
guilty of death."
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.
The Wizard knew that if Dorothy's pet was found
guilty and condemned to death the little girl would be made very unhappy; so, although he grieved over the piglet's sad fate as much as any of them, he resolved to save Eureka's life.
"
Guilty? I?" said Milady, with a smile which might have disarmed the angel of the last judgment.
A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself
guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
The Governor then called a public assembly and addressed the citizens: "Of what folly have you been
guilty? You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man, whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet."
"Very well," said the Magistrate, putting on the black cap and a solemn look; "as the accused makes no defence, and is undoubtedly
guilty, I sentence her to be eaten by the public executioner; and as that position happens to be vacant, I appoint you to it, without bonds."
For men are not
guilty of crimes for necessaries only (for which he thinks an equality of goods would be a sufficient remedy, as they would then have no occasion to steal cold or hunger), but that they may enjoy what the desire, and not wish for it in vain; for if their desire extend beyond the common necessaries of life, they were be wicked to gratify them; and not only so, but if their wishes point that way, they will do the same to enjoy those pleasures which are free from the alloy of pain.
