“But they’ll kill me; who can bear such wounds?”
“Good gracious! Is it possible you thought you’d be allowed to live?”
“You’re alive.”
“Yes, but I have not committed murder.”
“I did not know what I did; you know I was drunk.”
“The fact remains the same; you were often warned against liquor, and you knew when you took it what a beast it made you.”
“You are a hard cruel man. Plead for me.”
“I have done so. Ask pardon and you shall die quickly.”
“Die quickly! I won’t die. I must live, live, live.”
“That is impossible.”