Though both were hardened and inflexible villains, the sight of the captive maiden, as well as her excelling beauty, at first appeared to stagger them; but an expressive glance from the Preceptor of Templestowe restored them to their dogged composure; and they delivered, with a precision which would have seemed suspicious to more impartial judges, circumstances either altogether fictitious or trivial, and natural in themselves, but rendered pregnant with suspicion by the exaggerated manner in which they were told, and the sinister commentary which the witnesses added to the facts.
Vallottak, mint a karikacsapás, olyan pontosan és egybevágóan, hogy pártatlanabb bíróban tüstént gyanút keltett volna. Vallottak légből kapott, koholt dolgokról vagy olyan jelentéktelen körül­ményekről, amelyek önmagukban semmitmondóak lettek volna, ha nem teszi gyanússá a hangsúly, ahogy elmondták, és a sok célozgatás, amellyel fűszerezték.