but she never to move she d got a big piece of bread on her lap adam had ven a faint of despair while this witness was speaking he had hidden his face on his arm which rested on the boarding in front of him it waa the supreme moment of his suffering was guilty and he was silently calling to god for help he heard no more of the evidence and was unconscious when the case for the had closed � unconscious that mr was in the witness box telling of s character in her own parish and of the virtuous habits in which she had been brought up this testimony could have no influence on the verdict but it was given as part of that plea for mercy which own counsel would have made if he had been allowed to speak for her � a favor not granted to in those stem times at last adam lifted np his head for there was a general movement him the judge had addressed the jury and they were retiring the decisive moment was not far adam felt a shuddering horror that would not let him look at but she had into her blank hard indifference ail eyes were ed to look at her but she stood like a statue of dull despair there was a mingled rustling whispering and low throughout the court during this interval the desire to listen was suspended and every one had some feeling or opinion to express in under tones adam sat looking before him but he did not see the objects that were right in front of his eyes � tlie counsel and talking with an of business and mr in low conversation with the judge did not see mr sit down a in a and his head when somebody whispered to him the inward action was too intense for adam to in outward objects some strong sensation roused him it was not very long hardly more a quarter of an before the knock which told that the jury had come to their decision fell as a signal for silence on every ear it is sublime � that sudden pause of a great multitude which tells that one soul moves in all deeper and deeper the silence seemed to become like the deepening night while the s names were called over and the prisoner was made to hold up her hand and the jury were asked for their verdict guilty it the verdict every one expected but there was a sigh of disappointment from some hearts that it was followed by no recommendation to mercy still the sympathy of the court was not with the prisoner the of her crime stood out the more harshly by the side of her hard and obstinate silence even the verdict to distant eyes had not appeared to move her but those who were near saw her trembling the stillness was less intense until the judge put on his black cap and the in his was observed behind him then it deepened again before the had had time to command silence if any sound were heard it must have been the sound of beating hearts the judge spoke the blood to s face and then fled back again as she looked up at the judge and kept her wide open eyes fixed on him as if fascinated by fear adam had not yet turned toward her there was a deep horror like a great gulf between them but at the words � and then to be hanged by the neck till you be dead a piercing shriek rang through the hall it was s shriek adam started to his feet and stretched out his arms toward her but the ai ms could not reach her she had fallen down in a fit and was carried out of court adam chapter s arthur landed at liverpool read the letter from his aunt briefly announcing his grandfather s his first feeling was poor grandfather i could have got to to be with him when he died he might have felt or wished at the last that i shall never know now it was a lonely death it ia impossible to say that hie grief was deeper than that pity and softened memory took place of the old and in hia busy thoughts about the future as the chaise carried him rapidly along toward the home where he was now to be master there was a continually effort to remember any thing by which he could show a regard for his grandfather s wishes without hia own cherished aims for the good of the tenants and the estate but it is not in human nature � only in human � for a young man uke arthur with a fine constitution and fine spirits ig well of himself believing that others think well of him and having a very ardent intention to ve them more and more reason for that good opinion � it is not possible for such a young man just coming into a splendid estate through the death of a very old man whom he was not fond of to feel any thing veiy different from joy ow hia real life was beginning now he would have room and opportunity for action and he would use them he would show the people what a fine country gentleman was he would not exchange that career for any other under the sun he felt himself riding over the hills in the days looking after favorite plans of and then admired on sombre mornings as tlie best rider on the best in the hunt spoken well of on market days as a first rate landlord by and by making speeches at election dinners and showing a knowledge of the patron of new and the severe of and withal a jolly fellow that every body must happy faces greeting him every where on 