I do not desire to extenuate my guilt—far less to defend it; but I would show you, and such as you —who, happily, are exempted from trials like mine—how much misery has to do with crime. ‘So yours is the rattling tongue, is it, young madam?’ ‘I should say so. It's a mighty quare 'un, though. You are my Sir Galahad, so faithful and true that it is a wonder you exist. Then he paused. " "Ask them, all of them, and I will gladly answer. ‘She’s perfectly right. This obstacle removed, he thought he might now make the attempt. But, if you have any particular fancy for hanging the gentleman, who chose to take the law into his own hands—and I think your motive extremely disinterested and praiseworthy—why, it's just possible, if you make it worth my while, that your desires may be gratified. She had lost her nerve, and there was no more freedom in London for her that night.