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Updated: June 26, 2025
"And from that day, gentlemen of the jury, the brother and the sister have lived like the poorest laborers, working incessantly, and denying themselves everything but what was indispensable for life itself. "And this day, gentlemen, Malgat owes nothing to the society; he has paid everything. He fell once; but he has risen again.
This gentleman, who was M. Elgin, spoke such imperfect French, that Malgat asked him, for convenience sake, to step inside the railing. He came in, and behind him Sarah Brandon. "How can I describe to you the sensations of the poor cashier as he beheld this amazing beauty!
She got hold of it, and instantly disappeared, before any one could have prevented her escape. "Never mind!" said Malgat. "All the outer doors are guarded." But she had not meant to escape. There she was again, pale and cold like marble. She looked defiantly all around her, and said in a mocking tone of voice, "I have loved; and now I can die. That is just. I have loved. Ah!
"Then she came close up to him, and, casting upon him those burning glances which blazed with superhuman audacity, she sighed, "'If you loved me really! Ah, if you really loved me! "And she bent over him, tremulous with passion, watching his features so closely, that their lips nearly touched. "'If you loved me as I love you, she whispered again. "It was all over; Malgat was lost.
Malgat, having surrendered to justice with the prescribed limits of time to purge himself, was tried, and the whole process begun anew. But the trial was naturally a mere form. His own lawyer had very little to say. The state attorney himself made his defense.
"When he left the miserable woman who had ruined him, maddened by grief, and determined to end his life, Malgat went home. There he found his sister. "She was one of those women who have religiously preserved the domestic virtues of our forefathers, and who know of no compromise in questions of honor.
He thought those rapturous glances were genuine; he believed in the truthfulness of that intoxicating sweetness of her voice, and those enchanting blushes, which his coming never failed to call forth. "Now began the second act of the hideous comedy. Mrs. Brian appeared one day, all of a sudden, to notice something, and promptly requested Malgat never to put foot again within that house.
"It was on a fine afternoon in the month of October when Sarah Brandon appeared for the first time before the eyes of Malgat. He was at that time a man of forty, sprung from an old and respectable though modest family, content with his lot in life, and rather simple, as most men are who have always lived far from the intrigues of society.
"And when Malgat, more heartily ashamed of his poverty than he could have been of a crime, blushed to the roots of his hair, she pointed at the immense safe, which overflowed with gold and bank-notes, and said, "'And what is all that? "Malgat jumped up, and stood before the safe, his arms far outstretched, as if to defend it, and said in an accent of ineffable terror, "'What are you thinking of?
Malgat had the sublime self-abnegation to undergo the agonies of a trial, and the infamy of a condemnation, without allowing a word to escape?" "No. For the simple reason that Malgat was sentenced in contumaciam to ten years in the penitentiary." "And what has become of the poor wretch?" "Who knows? They say he killed himself.
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