"To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd. Standing, as it were, apart with her on the edge of his grave, not all the staring curiosity that looked on, could, for the moment, nerve him to remain quite still. His hurried right hand parcelled out the herbs before him into imaginary beds of flowers in a garden; and his efforts to control and steady his breathing shook the lips from which the colour rushed to his heart. The buzz of the great flies was loud again."
I think that this means that they believe that she had contact with the prisoner and even though she is a pretty person and she's very young and then she is being confronted with pity. The location of this seems as if it is in a courtroom. I think that this means that when you're being confronted about your youth and your beauty by pity then that is worse than just being confronted by everyone in a crowd.
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