Jack Vettriano Painting

Jack Vettriano Painting
"Certes this is a serious matter." Tom turned this dark piece of scoundrelism over in his mind awhile, then asked:
"Suffered the woman, also, by the storm?"
Several old heads among the assemblage nodded their recognition of the wisdom of this question. The sheriff, however, saw nothing consequential in the inquiry; he answered, with simple directness.
Jack Vettriano Painting
"Indeed, she did, your majesty, and most righteously, as all aver. Her habitation was swept away, and herself and child left shelterless."
"Methinks the power to do herself so ill a turn was dearly bought. She had been cheated, had she paid but a farthing for it; that she paid her soul, and her child's, argueth that she is mad; if she is mad she knoweth not what she doth, therefore sinneth not."
Jack Vettriano Painting