"It's a wonderful thing," adds a third; and then everybody looks sideways at you, convinced you are a scoundrel
of the blackest dye; and they glory in the beautiful idea that your true character, unguessed by your fellow-men, has been discovered by the untaught instinct of a little child.
Exhibit 84 was that of Bloomfield Rush and reads: "The annals of crime must place the name of Rush at the depth of infamy; he was accused of having in early life, set fire to an haystack; of having rescued a man from custody; of having afterwards murdering his wife, his mother, his father-in-law, and last Mr Jermy and his son, and dangerously wounding Mrs Jermy and her maid; and of having seduced many young women; and of having committed forgeries
of the blackest dye.