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Updated: May 16, 2025
Nothing now could be heard in the vast room, save Foucquier-Tinville's hastily whispered instructions to the clerk nearest to him, and the scratch of the latter's quill pen against the paper. The President was, with equal rapididy, affixing his signature to various papers handed up to him by the other clerks.
And Deroulede listened to the scurrilous document, with all the outward calm his strength of will could command. He would have liked to rise from his seat then and there, at once, and in mad, purely animal fury have, with a blow of his fist, quashed the words in Foucquier-Tinville's lying throat.
Obviously at the present moment, if Juliette's fate had been put to the plebiscite, she would have been unanimously acquitted. Merlin, as Deroulede spoke, had once or twice tried to read his friend Foucquier-Tinville's enigmatical expression, but the Public Prosecutor, with his face in deep shadow, had not moved a muscle during the Citizen-Deputy's noble peroration.
The women yelled hoarse approval; the children, not understanding, laughed in mirthless glee; the men, with loud curses, showed their appreciation of Foucquier-Tinville's speech. As for Deroulede, the mental agony he endured surpassed any torture which the devils, they say, reserve for the damned.
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