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"You would if you knew who will plead." "Oh!" "The prosecution will employ M. Gransiere!" "Oh, oh!" "You will not deny that he is a first-class man?" The magistrate was evidently becoming angry; his ears reddened up; and in the same proportion M. Daubigeon regained his calmness. "God forbid that I should deny M. Gransiere's eloquence. He is a powerful speaker, and rarely misses his man.
"Yes, on a thread, thanks to M. Domini! whose weakness I cannot comprehend, and who did not know at all, or who was not willing to know, how to make the most of the evidence. But it was M. Gransiere's fault quite as much. What had he to do with politics to drag them into the affair? And whom did he want to hit?
Three other witnesses are introduced; and then, as neither the accused nor his counsel have any thing to add, the prosecuting attorney begins his speech. M. Gransiere's eloquence is so widely known, and so justly appreciated, that we need not refer to it here.
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