The music and the lines are beautiful, deeply moved by Mrs Murray's speech: My husband has this silly little parchment, on that, he engraved, "Only a most diligent life". Diligence, constant and earnest efforts to accomplish what's undertaken. Persistency , application, but also toil and pain. Some of you think my husband a fool, obstinate, naive, driven to what he is by a fear of what awaits us all on the other side. But he hasn't. He sees the world , all of it, with its myriad choices. And he choses to be what he is. Yet, two such men found each other in our time. My husband and his friend, the murderous madman. Together, they have given us something extraordinary. I'm here to ask you to give exception to our prevailing natures. I'm here to ask you not to punish for it.
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