📝 您未登录，登录后完成练习可保存成绩、查看最佳记录。
总字符
0
正确字符
0
错误字符
0
错误率
0.00%
耗时(秒)
0
速度 WPM
0
0 / 73
1A Disappointment Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was
2old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the public enemy
3was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or even of last year, or of the year before. That, it was certain
4the prisoner had, for longer than that, been in the habit of passing and repassing between France and England, on secret
5business of which he could give no honest account. That, if it were in the nature of traitorous ways to thrive (which
6happily it never was), the real wickedness and guilt of his business might have remained undiscovered. That Providence,
7however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the nature of the
8prisoner's schemes, and, struck with horror, to disclose them to his Majesty's Chief Secretary of State and most
9honourable Privy Council. That, this patriot would be produced before them. That, his position and attitude were, on the
10whole, sublime. That, he had been the prisoner's friend, but, at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his
11infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his
12country. That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining
13citizen would assuredly have had one. That, as they were not so decreed, he probably would not have one. That, Virtue,
14as had been observed by the poets (in many passages which he well knew the jury would have, word for word, at the tips
15of their tongues; whereat the jury's countenances displayed a guilty consciousness that they knew nothing about the
16passages), was in a manner contagious; more especially the bright virtue known as patriotism, or love of country. That,
17the lofty example of this immaculate and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an
18honour, had communicated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his
19master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers. That, he (Mr. Attorney-General) was prepared to hear some
20disparagement attempted of this admirable servant; but that, in a general way, he preferred him to his (Mr.
21Attorney-General's) brothers and sisters, and honoured him more than his (Mr. Attorney-General's) father and mother.
22That, he called with confidence on the jury to come and do likewise. That, the evidence of these two witnesses, coupled
23with the documents of their discovering that would be produced, would show the prisoner to have been furnished with
24lists of his Majesty's forces, and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and land, and would leave no doubt
25that he had habitually conveyed such information to a hostile power. That, these lists could not be proved to be in the
26prisoner's handwriting; but that it was all the same; that, indeed, it was rather the better for the prosecution, as
27showing the prisoner to be artful in his precautions. That, the proof would go back five years, and would show the
28prisoner already engaged in these pernicious missions, within a few weeks before the date of the very first action
29fought between the British troops and the Americans. That, for these reasons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he knew
30they were), and being a responsible jury (as they knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an
31end of him, whether they liked it or not. That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never
32could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion
33of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs,
34any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off. That head Mr. Attorney-General
35concluded by demanding of them, in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it, and on the faith of
36his solemn asseveration that he already considered the prisoner as good as dead and gone. When the Attorney-General
37ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of
38what he was soon to become. When toned down again, the unimpeachable patriot appeared in the witness-box. Mr.
39Solicitor-General then, following his leader's lead, examined the patriot: John Barsad, gentleman, by name. The story of
40his pure soul was exactly what Mr. Attorney-General had described it to be--perhaps, if it had a fault, a little too
41exactly. Having released his noble bosom of its burden, he would have modestly withdrawn himself, but that the wigged
42gentleman with the papers before him, sitting not far from Mr. Lorry, begged to ask him a few questions. The wigged
43gentleman sitting opposite, still looking at the ceiling of the court. Had he ever been a spy himself? No, he scorned
44the base insinuation. What did he live upon? His property. Where was his property? He didn't precisely remember where it
45was. What was it? No business of anybody's. Had he inherited it? Yes, he had. From whom? Distant relation. Very distant?
46Rather. Ever been in prison? Certainly not. Never in a debtors' prison? Didn't see what that had to do with it. Never in
47a debtors' prison?--Come, once again. Never? Yes. How many times? Two or three times. Not five or six? Perhaps. Of what
48profession? Gentleman. Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked downstairs? Decidedly not; once
49received a kick on the top of a staircase, and fell downstairs of his own accord. Kicked on that occasion for cheating
50at dice? Something to that effect was said by the intoxicated liar who committed the assault, but it was not true. Swear
51it was not true? Positively. Ever live by cheating at play? Never. Ever live by play? Not more than other gentlemen do.
52Ever borrow money of the prisoner? Yes. Ever pay him? No. Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very
53slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? No. Sure he saw the prisoner with these lists?
54Certain. Knew no more about the lists? No. Had not procured them himself, for instance? No. Expect to get anything by
55this evidence? No. Not in regular government pay and employment, to lay traps? Oh dear no. Or to do anything? Oh dear
56no. Swear that? Over and over again. No motives but motives of sheer patriotism? None whatever. The virtuous servant,
57Roger Cly, swore his way through the case at a great rate. He had taken service with the prisoner, in good faith and
58simplicity, four years ago. He had asked the prisoner, aboard the Calais packet, if he wanted a handy fellow, and the
59prisoner had engaged him. He had not asked the prisoner to take the handy fellow as an act of charity--never thought of
60such a thing. He began to have suspicions of the prisoner, and to keep an eye upon him, soon afterwards. In arranging
61his clothes, while travelling, he had seen similar lists to these in the prisoner's pockets, over and over again. He had
62taken these lists from the drawer of the prisoner's desk. He had not put them there first. He had seen the prisoner show
63these identical lists to French gentlemen at Calais, and similar lists to French gentlemen, both at Calais and Boulogne.
64He loved his country, and couldn't bear it, and had given information. He had never been suspected of stealing a silver
65tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. He had known the last
66witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence. He didn't call it a particularly curious coincidence; most
67coincidences were curious. Neither did he call it a curious coincidence that true patriotism was his only motive too. He
68was a true Briton, and hoped there were many like him. The blue-flies buzzed again, and Mr. Attorney-General called Mr.
69Jarvis Lorry. "Mr. Jarvis Lorry, are you a clerk in Tellson's bank?" "I am." "On a certain Friday night in November one
70thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, did business occasion you to travel between London and Dover by the mail?" "It
71did." "Were there any other passengers in the mail?" "Two." "Did they alight on the road in the course of the night?"
72"They did." "Mr. Lorry, look upon the prisoner. Was he one of those two passengers?" "I cannot undertake to say that he
73was." "Does he resemble either of these two passengers?"
🎉 全部完成！共 73 行