Excerpt from Good-ByeThe crowded court was hushed and quiet - not a soul moved so much as a finger. The Judge, grave and stern, sat motionless - keen-eyed counsel were on the alert - fashionable ladies held their breath, while in some lovely eyes the scalding tears rose and fell fast over lovely cheeks out of pity for the unspeakable anguish on the face of the fair girl at the barrister's table below.The awful stillness lasted but for a moment, and as the jury began to file into their box, a sound between a shiver and a sob crept through the Court, and all eyes turned toward those who had come to bring the verdict which, to three lives in that place, would be of far graver import than if it were one of life or death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.