Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie











































































































































 -  Oh, that look! - so full of despair,
of unutterable anguish; it haunts me yet - it will haunt me for ever - Page 455
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Oh, That Look!

- So full of despair, of unutterable anguish; it haunts me yet - it will haunt me for ever. I would not have cared if I had killed him in strife - but in cold blood, and he so unsuspicious of his doom!

Yes, it was murder; I know by this constant tugging at my heart that it was murder. What do you say to it?"

"I should think as you do, Mr. Malcolm. It is a terrible thing to take away the life of a fellow-creature without the least provocation."

"Ah! I know you would blame me; but he was an enemy after all; I had a right to kill him; I was hired by the government under whom I served to kill him; and who shall condemn me?"

"No one more than your own heart."

"It is not the heart, but the brain, that must decide in questions of right and wrong," said he. "I acted from impulse, and shot that man; had I reasoned upon it for five minutes, the man would be living now. But what's done cannot be undone. Did I ever show you the work I wrote upon South America?"

"Are you an author," said I, incredulously.

"To be sure I am. Murray offered me 100 pounds for my manuscript, but I would not take it. Shall I read to you some passages from it?"

I am sorry to say that his behaviour in the morning was uppermost in my thoughts, and I had no repugnance in refusing.

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