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Updated: June 9, 2025
A feeling of the utmost terror spread through the town; only a few fanatics went on howling in the church, which the Protestants, fearing still greater disasters, had by this time resolved to abandon. The first to come out was President Olivier Desmonts, accompanied by M. Vallongues, who had only just arrived in the city, but who had immediately hurried to the spot at the call of duty.
"More, citizen; more!" he said loftily. Only the two losers appeared inclined to scepticism. "Bah!" one of them said it was Desmonts. "The whole matter of the woman's money may be a tissue of lies!" "And England is a far cry!" added Guidal. But Merri was not likely to be depressed by these dismal croakings.
Oh! the humiliating position for an amateur middle-weight champion to find himself in, with that drink-sodden Kennard was sure that he was drink-sodden consumptive sprawling on the top of him! "Don't trouble, citizen Desmonts," the wretch cried out after his retreating companions. "I have what I want by me." Very leisurely he pulled a coil of rope out of the capacious pocket of his tattered coat.
A feeling of the utmost terror spread through the town; only a few fanatics went on howling in the church, which the Protestants, fearing still greater disasters, had by this time resolved to abandon. The first to come out was President Olivier Desmonts, accompanied by M. Vallongues, who had only just arrived in the city, but who had immediately hurried to the spot at the call of duty.
But the prince reassured them by saying that all needful measures would be taken to provide against any breach of the public peace, and at the same time invited M. Desmonts, president, and M. Roland-Lacoste, member of the Consistory, to dine with him. The next deputation to arrive was a Catholic one, and its object was to ask that Trestaillons might be set at liberty.
M. Desmonts had therefore little cause for anxiety as to his safety either in the streets of Nimes or on the road between that and his country house. But, as we have said, it was not so with M. Juillerat.
Although the other pastor, M. Desmonts, was president of the Consistory, his life was in much less danger; for, first, he had reached an age which almost everywhere commands respect, and then he had a son who was a lieutenant in, one of the royal corps levied at Beaucaire, who protected him by his name when he could not do so by his presence.
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