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Her eye alone proclaimed ` we will not part ! ' Thy ` hope ' may perish , or thy friends may flee . Farewell to life -- but not adieu to thee ! '' -- -LSB- Lara -RSB- They arrived at noon at the house of Mr. Thornton , and Aram underwent his examination . Though he denied most of the particulars in Houseman 's evidence , and expressly the charge of murder , his commitment was made out ; and that day he was removed by the officers , -LRB- Barker and Moor , who had arrested him at Grassdale , -RRB- to York Castle , to await his trial at the assizes . The sensation which this extraordinary event created throughout the country , was wholly unequalled . Not only in Yorkshire , and the county in which he had of late resided , where his personal habits were known , but even in the Metropolis , and amongst men of all classes in England , it appears to have caused one mingled feeling of astonishment , horror , and incredulity , which in our times has had no parallel in any criminal prosecution .