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"Well," the doctor went on, "I am a Radical, I, M." "Folgat," supplied the young lawyer. "Yes, M. Folgat, I am a Radical; and it is my duty to defend a man whose political opinions so closely resemble mine. I come, therefore, to show you my medical report, if you can make any use of it in your defence of M. Boiscoran, or suggest to me any ideas." "Ah!" exclaimed the young man.
One of those idle good-for-nothings, drunkards, envious scamps who are found in every community, in the country as well as in the city, cried out, "And why not?" These few words opened at once a door to all kinds of bold guesses. Everybody had heard something about the quarrel between Count Claudieuse and M. de Boiscoran.
He knew that Dionysia was surrounded by devoted and intelligent men, by M. de Chandore, M. Seneschal, Dr. Seignebos, M. Magloire, and, finally, that advocate whom the Marchioness de Boiscoran had brought down with her from Paris, M. Folgat. "And Heaven knows what they would not try," he thought, "to rescue the guilty man from the hands of justice!"
Could I foresee that a day might come when I, Jacques de Boiscoran, should have to denounce the Countess Claudieuse, and should be compelled to look for evidence and witnesses against her?" The eminent advocate of Sauveterre looked aside; and, instead of replying, he said in a somewhat changed voice, "Go on, Jacques, go on!"
"I confess," he said, "that, if I were to go and see Jacques to-morrow for the first time, I should not speak to him as I did before." "And I," exclaimed the Marquis de Boiscoran, "I declare that I answer for my son as for myself, and I mean to tell him so to-morrow." Then turning towards his wife, and speaking so low, that she alone could hear him, he added,
The prosecution is justified, by an opinion of the faculty, in saying to M. de Boiscoran, 'You need not deny any longer. You have been seen; here is a witness." These arguments must have struck Dr. Seignebos very forcibly; for he remained silent for at least ten long seconds, wiping his gold spectacles with a pensive air.
One family had actually the incomprehensible courage to write to the Marquis de Boiscoran for three tickets, promising, in return, "by their attitude in court" to contribute to the acquittal of the accused. In the midst of all these rumors, the city was suddenly startled by a list of subscriptions in behalf of the families of the unfortunate firemen who had perished in the fire at Valpinson.
M. de Boiscoran and M. de Chandore have both encouraged me to hope that I might find such a man in you." "Certainly, sir, and with all my heart," replied M. Seneschal, bowing politely, and evidently flattered by this deference on the part of a great Paris lawyer. He had offered his guests seats.
He did not admit the existence of a plot, however; but he was not disinclined to believe in the cunning calculations of some rascal, who, availing himself of circumstances known to him alone, tried to let all suspicion fall upon M. de Boiscoran, instead of himself.
Seeing him pale and haggard, with his hair and beard in disorder, and his eyes shining brightly with fever, like half-extinguished coals, one would hardly have recognized in him the happy lord of Boiscoran, free from care and trouble, upon whom fortune had ever smiled, that haughty sceptical young man, who from the height of the past defied the future.
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