韦伯斯特的这次总结陈词后来被视为雄辩史上的经典之作。
Webster's summation was later deemed a masterpiece of oratory.
在对陪审团作最后的陈词总结时，韦伯斯特以一种冷酷的节奏将案件氛围式的可怕细节慢慢聚拢来，他的这种陈述也深深打动了我，使我不禁联想起埃德加·爱伦·坡的恐怖推理小说来。
His summation for the jury—its inexorable cadence, the slow gathering of dreadful atmospheric details—tugged at my memory, reminding me of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of terror.
已故的哈佛大学文学家弗兰西斯·奥特·马提森（Francis Otto Matthiessen）认为，怀特谋杀案的余音和韦伯斯特的陈词总结在霍桑的另一本著作《七个尖角的阁楼》（The House of Seven Gables）（1851）亦能找到痕迹。
The late Harvard University literary scholar Francis Otto Matthiessen argued that echoes of the White murder and Webster’s summation also found their way into The House of Seven Gables (1851).
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