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THE CASE OF GEORGE HALL.

I killed her? Ah! why do they cheer?
Are the twenty years gone to-day?
Why she was my wife, sir; dear, so dear!
And I killed her? And they cheer? . . .
Ah, hound! He was shaking with fear;
And I rushed—with a knife they say; . . .
I killed her; . . . ah! why do they cheer?
Are the twenty years gone to-day?