Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

“The passageway smelled of smoke: burning wood, a torch, acrid. His head ached. …”

“I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me al…”

“Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him…”

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, th…”