Pho, pho—you mistake the matter—
No judge no ... will thee hear the father himself?—said Rachel.
Not in the way that you desire ... there would be no end to this, if we did—
What are we to do then judge? We have it in our power to prove that Judith Hubbard and Mary Walcott proposed to the two children, Bridget Pope and Abigail Paris, to swear away the life—
Pho, pho, pho—pho, pho, pho—a very stale trick that. One of the witnesses dead, the other you are told at the point of death—
It is no trick judge; but if ... if ... supposing it to be true, that Judith Hubbard and her colleague did this, how should we prove it?
How should you prove it? Why, by producing the persons to whom, or before whom, the proposal you speak of was made.
But if they are at the point of death, judge?
In that case there would be no help for you—
Such is the humanity of the law.