But first, the Prosecuting Attorney, who was paid to prosecute all offenders against the People, drew him aside and talked with him privately.
"Oh, I'll prosecute you all right," retorted the Prosecuting Attorney.
"Also you will have to prosecute this Patsy Horan," Watson advised; "for I shall now have him arrested for assault and battery."
It was about the hour of noon, therefore, when De Bracy, for whose advantage the expedition had been first planned, appeared to prosecute his views upon the hand and possessions of the Lady Rowena.
Of them all, perhaps, De Bracy least regretted the interruption; for his conference with the Lady Rowena had arrived at a point, where he found it equally difficult to prosecute or to resign his enterprise.
At others he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time immemorial, defying the owner to
prosecute him for trespass.
And as he delivered his instructions to those within, a silent listener crouched without his tent, waiting for the time when he might enter in safety and
prosecute his search for the missing pouch and the pretty pebbles that had caught his fancy.
As I had anticipated, no one was present to
prosecute the case against me--the necessary formalities were observed, and I was discharged.
It was out of his power to
prosecute his hunting, or to maintain his party; the only thought now was how to get back to civilized life.
But when at an election the Liberals had written on his garden fence in large blue letters: This way to Rome, he had been very angry, and threatened to
prosecute the leaders of the Liberal party in Blackstable.
When the husband
prosecutes his wife's gallant, if he can produce any proofs of a criminal conversation, he recovers for damages forty cows, forty horses, and forty suits of clothes, and the same number of other things.
If any person who
prosecutes another for murder can produce a certain number of witnesses to it of his own relations, the accused person shall be held guilty.