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When the counsel for the defense stood up, Mehetabel raised her shame-stricken face. This man, she knew, would speak a good word for her -- had he not done so already? Had not all his efforts been directed towards getting out of the witnesses something favorable to her, and to showing contradictions in their statements which told against her?
But she looked timidly towards him, and dared not meet the glances of the crowd in the court. What must they think of her -- that she was an abandoned woman without self-restraint; a disgrace to her sex, as that young barrister had said.