Diary came to an end.
The most unpleasant pages in the whole Report of the Trial were--to
me--the pages which contained the extracts from my husband's Diary.
There were expressions here and there which not only pained me, but
which almost shook Eustace's position in my estimation. I think I would
have given everything I possessed to have had the power of annihilating
certain lines in the Diary. As for his passionate expressions of love
for Mrs. Beauly, every one of them went through me like a sting. He had
whispered words quite as warm into my ears in the days of his courtship.
I had no reason to doubt that he truly and dearly loved me. But the
question was, Had he just as truly and dearly loved Mrs. Beauly before
me? Had she or I--won the first love of his heart? He had declared to
me over and over again that he had only fancied himself to be in love
before the day when we met. I had believed him then. I determined to
believe him still. I did believe him. But I hated Mrs. Beauly!
As for the painful impression produced in Court by the readings from
the letters and the Diary, it seemed to be impossible to increase it.
Nevertheless it _was_ perceptibly increased. In other words, it was
rendered more unfavorable still toward the prisoner by the evidence of
the next and last witness called on the part of the prosecution.
William Enzie, under-gardener at Gleninch, was sworn, and deposed as
follows:
On the twentieth of October, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, I was
sent to work in the shrubbery, on the side next to the garden called the
Dutch Garden. There was a summer-house in the Dutch Garden, having its
back set toward the shrubbery. The day was wonderfully fine and--warm
for the time of year.
"Passing to my work, I passed the back of the summer-house. I heard
voices inside--a man's voice and a lady's voice. The lady's voice was
strange to me. The man's voice I recognized as the voice of my master.
The ground in the shrubbery was soft, and my curiosity was excited. I
stepped up to the back of the summer-house without being heard, and I
listened to what was going on inside.
"The first words I could distinguish were spoken in my master's voice.
He said, 'If I could only have foreseen that you might one day be free,
what a happy man I might have been!' The lady's voice answered, 'Hush!
you must not talk so.' My master said upon that, 'I must talk of what is
in my mind; it is always in my mind that I have lost
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