Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
the possession of power brings on madness.
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.