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Seignebos sat down, saying, "Well, I must wait till to-morrow." "The hospital in Sauveterre," says the guide book, "is, in spite of its limited size, one of the best institutions of the kind in the department. The chapel and the new additions were built at the expense of the Countess de Maupaison, the widow of one of the ministers of Louis Philippe."
The marquis was pleased with him, and after having told him all he knew about Jacques's position, endeavored to inform him as to the people down at Sauveterre, who would be likely to be friends, and who enemies, recommending to him, above all, to trust M. Seneschal, an old friend of the family, and a most influential man in that community.
One thing is quite certain: The four thousand and odd wild, sheepskin- wearing inhabitants of the entire region of the Causses must erelong be nationalized like the Breton and the Morvandial, undergo a gradual and complete transformation. Travellers of another generation on this road will not be stared at by the fierce-looking, picturesque figures we now pass in the precincts of Sauveterre.
The eminent advocate of Sauveterre alone remained unmoved. "Well," said he, "I had rather admit one hour of utter insanity even than five years of such monstrous hypocrisy. Jacques may have committed the crime, and be nothing but a madman; but, if the countess is guilty, one might despair of mankind, and renounce all faith in this world.
Whenever she leaves the bedside of her dear patients to pray at church for them, she is received with the most touching sympathy and the most sincere admiration by the whole population." "Ah, that wretch Boiscoran!" cried the good people of Sauveterre when they read such an article. The next day, they found this,
All of a sudden, at these words, the eminent advocate of Sauveterre rose from his chair, and, placing himself before Jacques de Boiscoran, he asked, looking at him with one of those glances which seem to pierce our innermost heart, "And then?" Jacques had to summon all the energy that was left him to be able to continue with a semblance of calmness, at least,
Tell us how you employed yourself last night." "I have told you all I can say." The magistrate seemed to reflect for a full minute; then he said, "Take care, M. de Boiscoran: I shall have to have you arrested." "Do so." "I shall be obliged to order your arrest at once, and to send you to jail in Sauveterre." "Very well." "Then you confess?"
"But I shall see him. I have determined to accompany the marchioness to Sauveterre. When will you leave?" "Nothing keeps me here in Paris. I have done all that could be done, and I might return this evening. But I am really too tired. I think I shall to-morrow take the train at 10.45." "If you do so, we shall travel in company; you understand? To-morrow at ten o'clock at the Orleans station.
Whatever must be the result, he thought he should escape the blame, which he should surely have incurred if no true bill had been found. He did not disguise it from himself that he should be looked at askance by all Sauveterre, that his social relations were well-nigh broken off, and that no one would henceforth heartily shake hands with him. But that gave him no concern.
Our court-house here in Sauveterre has at various times reechoed the words of almost all our great masters of forensic eloquence. We have heard Berryer, Dufaure, Jules Favre, and others; but, even after these illustrious orators, M. Folgat still succeeds in astonishing and moving us deeply.
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