text:  Such an utter such a refreshing absence of all earthiness--such purity and calmness of soul--such mental sweetness as it bespoke! When I first directed my eye to him it seemed as if his thoughts were abstracted from the comparatively noisy scene over which he presided--busy it might be in reviewing the charge which he had delivered to the jury and upon the credit of which the miserable culprit had been doomed to die