Show benevolent there was not long since a venerable and benevolent judge in paris who at the moment of passing sentence on a prisoner consulted his associates on each side of him as to the proper penalty to be inflicted what ought we to give this rascal brother he said bending over to the one upon his right 1 should say three years what is your opinion brother to the other on his left 1 I should give him about four years the judge with benevolence prisoner not desiring to give yon a long and severe term of imprisonment as I 1 should have done if left to myself 1 have consulted my learned brothers and 1 shall take their advice seven life |