help with Herman Melville's Bell Tower?

Haley

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Can anyone tell me what this means, i don't understand where the homicide came in, i don't recall Bannadonna killing anyone, help please!

The casting of such a mass was deemed no small triumph for the caster; one, too, in which the state might not scorn to share. The homicide was overlooked. By the charitable that deed was but imputed to sudden transports of esthetic passion, not to any flagitious quality. A kick from an Arabian charger; not sign of vice, but blood.

His felony remitted by the judge, absolution given him by the priest, what more could even a sickly conscience have desired.
 
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