All the Year Round, Vol. 6: A Weekly Journal, Conducted by Charles Dickens, With Which Is Incorporated Household Words; From September 28, 1861, to March 8, 1862, Including No. 127 to No. 150 (Classic - Hardcover

Charles Dickens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033153181X ISBN 13: 9780331531817

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from All the Year Round, Vol. 6: A Weekly Journal, Conducted by Charles Dickens, With Which Is Incorporated Household Words; From September 28, 1861, to March 8, 1862, Including No. 127 to No. 150

It was settled, of course, according to Eng lish custom, that both combatants should fire at the same time, and by signal. The antagonist fired at the ht moment; his ball ed Louis Grayle's temp Louis Grayle had not fired. He now seemed to the seconds to take slow and deliberate aim. They called out to him not to fire - they were rushing to prevent him - when the trigger was pulled and his Opponent fell dead on the field. The fight was, therefore, con sidered unfair; Louis Grayle was tried for his life he did not stand the trial in person.

He escaped to the Continent; hurried ou' to some distant uncivilised lands; could not be traced; reappeared in England no more. The lawyer who conducted his defence pleaded skil fully. He argued that the delay m firing was not intentional, therefore not criminal -the effect of the stun which the wound in the temple had occasioned. The judge was a gentleman, and summed up the evidence so as to direct the jury to a verdict against the low wretch who had murdered a gentleman. But the jurors were not gentlemen, and Grayle's advocate had of course excited their sympath for a son of the e0ple whom a gentleman ha wantonly insulte he verdict was manslaughter. But the sentence emphatically marked the aggravated nature of the homicide - three years' im rison ment. Grayle eluded the prison, but e was a man disgraced and an exile; his ambition blasted, his career an outlaw's, and his age not yet twenty-three. My father said that he was supposed to have ch d his name none knew what had become of him. And so in his old age this creature, brilliant and daring, whom if born under better auspices we might now be all fawning on, cringing to - after livmg to old age, no one knows how - dies, murdered at Aleppo, no one, you say, knows by whom.

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