"But you are familiar with the particulars; everybody has read them."
"I am the exception, then. I have seen very few newspapers lately."
"It was a foul and wicked murder."
"It appears so, from this bare recital."
"The foulest and most horrible within my remembrance. Ah! where will not the passions of men lead them?"
"A wide contemplation. Were men to measure the consequences of their acts before they committed them, certain channels of human events which are now exceedingly wide and turbulent would become narrow and peaceful. It was a girl who was murdered?"
"Yes."
"Young?"
"Barely seventeen."
"Pretty?"