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"Yes, not your statement, but my reason," said the district-attorney, wiping the tears from his eyes. "Valentine," whispered Villefort, in a broken voice, "kiss me. Now I can die easy." "Oh, father, father, you must not die!" she weepingly cried. "I must, darling, but I die happy, since I know you will be well taken care of.

It was never known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said: "I am at your command, Mr. District-Attorney." Then he addressed the audience: "All of you, all who are present consider me worthy of pity, do you not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I consider that I am to be envied.

He added, that if this omission continued, he should be obliged to prosecute them, as the law directs, before the proper tribunals. Thus the district-attorney is directed to recover all fines, unless such a right has been specially awarded to another magistrate. Revised Statutes, vol. i., p. 383.

However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, who was evidently the real Jean Valjean.

Most of the men with whom it lay to set the law in motion, notably Dixon, the District-Attorney, were old friends of his, who would hesitate to drag him from a sick-room to face indictment.

He lets us see his hero cock-fighting, horse-racing, bad-whiskey-drinking, studying law, and fighting by turns, leaving behind him somewhat dubious but on the whole favorable memories, yet somehow getting on, till he is appointed District-Attorney among the wolves, wildcats, and redskins of Tennessee.

The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he can have me arrested when he likes." He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly.

Miss Anthony and the fourteen other ladies who voted, went before U. S. Commissioner Storrs, U. S. District-Attorney Crowley and Assistant U. S. District-Attorney Pond, and were ordered to appear for examination Friday, November 29.

In May, Lyman Tremaine, from the House Judiciary Committee, reported adversely on the petition in a lengthy document, which incorporated a letter from District-Attorney Crowley, urging the committee "not to degrade a just judge and applaud a criminal;" and declaring that "Miss Anthony's trial was fair and constitutional and by an impartial jury."

A man, placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, recognized him, and exclaimed in concert: "M. Madeleine!" It was he, in fact.