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This may seem a violent and unholy revenge upon them. And I (who led the heart of it) have in these my latter years doubted how I shall be judged, not of men - for God only knows the errors of man's judgements - but by that great God Himself, the front of whose forehead is mercy.

For that, she gave me the simplest, kindest, and sweetest of all kisses; and I went down the grand stairs grandly, thinking of nothing else but that.

I wrung the hand of Jeremy Stickles, for his truth and goodness; and he almost wept (for since his wound, he had been a weakened man) as he answered, 'Turn for turn, John. You saved my life from the Doones; and by the mercy of God, I have saved you from a far worse company. Let your sister Annie know it.'