“That, for these reasons, the jury being a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury (as they knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not. That, they could never lay their heads upon their pillows; that they could never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short there never could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner’s head was taken off.”
Charles Dickens, “The Tale of Two Cities”, 1859
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