Justice: A Tragedy in Four ActsC. Scribner's Sons, 1910 - 109 páginas |
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afraid altered this cheque Booley Bowing cashed cashier cell door CHAPLAIN cheque was altered cheque-book CLEAVER CLIPTON corridor COWLEY crime criminal curtain falls dear defence DOCTOR doorway eyes faint FALDER comes FALDER'S cell FALDER's room father feel forgery four minutes Friday FROME funny gentlemen give go back goes Good-morning GOVERNOR guilty hand heard husband insane JAMES and WALTER JOHN GALSWORTHY JUDGE jury keep looking at FALDER lordship lunch mind MOANEY morning nahsty never nods O'CLEARY office-boy outer office partners pass-book plea prisoner prisoner's queer remember round RUTH HONEYWILL Scotland Yard seems seen shakes his head silence sits smile solicitors sorry sort sound speak stands star class staring suddenly SWEEDLE tell temporary insanity Thank There's thing thought told Trenton turns upset voice wall warder What's window WISTER witness WOODER word Ye-es
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Página 83 - There is a sharp tap and click; the cell light behind the glass screen has been turned up. The cell is brightly lighted. FALDER is seen gasping for breath. A sound from far away, as of distant, dull beating on thick metal, is suddenly audible.
Página 83 - FALDER'S hands are seen moving as if his spirit had already joined in this beating, and the sound swells till it seems to have entered the very cell. He suddenly raises his clenched fists. Panting violently, he flings himself at his door, and beats on it.
Página 55 - I have said to the jury on the score of the prisoner's youth, and the great stress under which he acted. THE JUDGE. I don't think you can, Mr. Frome. FROME. If your lordship says so — I do most earnestly beg your lordship to give the utmost weight to my plea. [He sits down. THE JUDGE. [To the CLERK] Call upon him. THE CLERK. Prisoner at the bar, you stand convicted of felony. Have you anything to say for yourself, why the Court should not give you judgment according to law?
Página 49 - Gentlemen, men like the prisoner are destroyed daily under our law for want of that human (.insight which sees them as they are, patients, and not criminals. If the prisoner be found guilty, and treated as though he were a criminal type, he will, as all experience shows, in all probability become one. I beg you not to return a verdict that may thrust him back into prison and brand him for ever. Gentlemen, Justice is_ a machine that, when some one has once given it_the_ starling push, rolls on of...
Página 74 - I've got another six weeks to do in here, alone. I can't do it and think o' nothing. I must have something to interest me. You've made me a sporting offer, sir, but I can't pass my word about it. I shouldn't like to deceive a gentleman. [Pointing into the cell] Another four hours' steady work would have done it. THE GOVERNOR. Yes, and what then? Caught, brought back, punishment. Five weeks...