ty of his eye was undimmed
as ever, and still the broad expanse of his forehead retained its
unwrinkled surface and striking expression of calmness and majesty.
High, self-collected, serene, and undaunted, he looked upon the crowd,
the scene, the judge, before and around him; and, even among those who
believed him guilty, that involuntary and irresistible respect which
moral firmness always produces on the mind, forced an unwilling interest
in his fate, and even a reluctant hope of his acquittal.

Houseman was called upon. No one could regard his face without a certain
mistrust and inward shudder. In men prone to cruelty, it has generally
been remarked, that there is an animal expression strongly prevalent in
the countenance. The murderer and the lustful man are often alike in
the physical structure. The bull-throat--the thick lips--the
receding forehead--the fierce restless eye--which some one
or other says reminds you of the buffalo in the instant before
he becomes dangerous, are the outward tokens of the natural animal
unsoftened--unenlightened--unredeemed--consulting only the immediate
desires of his nature, whatever be the passion (lust or revenge) to
which they prompt. And this animal expression, the witness of
his character, was especially wrought, if we may use the word, in
House-man's rugged and harsh features; rendered, if possible, still more
remarkable at that time by a mixture of sullenness and timidity. The
conviction that his own life was saved, could not prevent remorse at his
treachery in accusing his comrade--a sort of confused principle of which
villains are the most susceptible, when every other honest sentiment has
deserted them.

With a low, choked, and sometimes a faltering tone, Houseman deposed,
that, in the night between the 7th and 8th of January 1744-5, sometime
before 11 o'clock, he went to Aram's house--that they conversed on
different matters--that he stayed there about an hour--that some three
hours afterwards he passed, in company with Clarke, by Aram's house, and
Aram was outside the door, as if he were about to return home--that
Aram invited them both to come in--that they did so--that Clarke,
who intended to leave the town before day-break, in order, it was
acknowledged, to make secretly away with certain property in his
possession, was about to quit the house, when Aram proposed to accompany
him out of the town--that he (Aram) and Houseman then went forth with
Clarke--that when the