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Several of the New York papers the next morning carried editorials commending the verdict. Lydia sitting up in bed with a breakfast tray on her knee, read them coolly through.
"The safety of the highways" -- "the irresponsibility of the younger generation, particularly among those of great wealth" -- "pity must not degenerate into sentimentality" -- "the equal administration of our laws"