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"I have avoided saying one word to either of you or to Esther," said Mr. Jarndyce, "until now, in order that we might be open as the day, and all on equal terms.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
[296] honourably acquitted, it would still have been a notorious violation of the custom of England, (and the common law itself is scarce more than custom,) to put him to death after such earnest recommendation of his Judges—Judges under no influence of the favourable sort!
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole
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