पृष्ठ 494 / 896

Darnay had once put in practice to "catch" him, and on the

diamond-cut-diamond arts in himself, madam, which had rendered

him "not to be caught." Some of his King's Bench familiars, who

were occasionally parties to the full-bodied wine and the lie,

excused him for the latter by saying that he had told it so

often, that he believed it himself--which is surely such an

incorrigible aggravation of an originally bad offence, as to

justify any such offender's being carried off to some suitably

retired spot, and there hanged out of the way.