It is because he has suffered so long-that is why he has come like this-if-they aren't accusing him wrongfully, and I-he will tell me the truth.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Tonight, as he looked at the beautiful face and marked each fleeting expression that flitted like sunshine over it: as he listened to the musical voice, and felt the touch of her dress as it brushed his arm, a passionate longing seized and mastered him, and he felt that he would risk all of which he was wrongfully possessed to win her-ah, and if she were, indeed, only the daughter of a common woodman.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
It is no fancy, but it seems to have been to lead me on; and as I judge her, perhaps wrongfully, she loves to drag every man she sees in her train.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn