We have
this in evidence--the perfectly unimpeachable evidence of the
Signora Orsola Steno. Add to that, again, that the method of the
murder was just such as a woman was likely to adopt, and that a man
was very little likely to think of, or to have the means of, in his
possession. Put all these certain facts together, Signor Marchese;
and I think it will be impossible for even your mind to resist the
conviction that must force itself upon every one who considers the
circumstances."
The Marchese stopped in his agitated walk to and fro across the
floor of the chamber, and gazed into the lawyer's face with an
expression of bewilderment ands pain, which the old man met with a
keen and steady glance, and a grave shake of the head. The Marchese,
after encountering his eye for a few moments, struck his open hand
on his forehead, and threw himself on the chair he had left without
uttering a word.
"And to you, Signor Marchese, it assuredly cannot appear strange
that the circumstances I have enumerated should carry with them the
conviction to other minds that Paolina Foscarelli is guilty of the
murder of the singer," continued the lawyer, speaking very slowly
and fixing the keen glance of his dark bright eyes on the working
face of his companion; "to you, above all others, this cannot appear
strange, since--to your own mind this suspicion first occurred.
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