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"Our work here is done," said Lomaque, laying his hand on Trudaine's arm. "Let us give Danville time to get clear of the house, and then leave it too." "My sister! where is she?" asked Trudaine, eagerly. "Make your mind easy about her. I will tell you more when we get out."
I acted solely from private motives of humanity toward them and toward others motives which a good republican may feel, and yet not turn traitor to the welfare of his country." "Are you ready to inform the court, next, who the man and woman Dubois really are?" inquired the president, impatiently. "I am ready," answered Trudaine.
No man in any profession is more thoroughly entitled to have a position of trust and distinction conferred on him by the State than the gentleman to whom we refer M. Louis Trudaine." Before Lomaque could look up from the paper to observe the impression which his news produced, Rose had gained her brother's side and was kissing him in a flutter of delight.
From the first, Trudaine had devoted himself to meet such trials as now assailed him; and like a man he met them, in defiance alike of persecution from the mother and of insult from the son. The hard task was only lightened when, as time advanced, public trouble began to mingle itself with private grief. Then absorbing political necessities came as a relief to domestic misery.
"Suppose I answered," he began, slowly; "suppose I told you that you wronged him, would my testimony really be strong enough to shake opinions, or rather presumptions, which have been taking firmer and firmer hold of you for months and months past? No! no! trust me " Trudaine looked up suddenly.
I know you are thinking disparagingly of Charles's convictions, when you speak so of his mother's." Trudaine smiled and shook his head; but she took no notice of the gesture of denial only stood looking earnestly and wistfully into his face.
"I have no choice but to promise," answered Trudaine. Lomaque produced his pocket-book and pencil before he spoke again. "I will enter into particulars as soon as I have asked a strange question of you," he said.
"I have just been telling my brother every thing," said Rose, turning round toward him. "And what does he say?" asked Lomaque. "He says what I say," replied Rose, answering for her brother; "that our time is your time the time of our best and dearest friend." "Shall it be done, then?" asked Lomaque, with a meaning look at Trudaine.
"Is it not a little hard on an old man to be always asking questions of him, and never answering one of his inquiries in return?" he said to Rose, very gayly as to manner, but rather uneasily as to look. "He will not speak out till we two are alone," thought Trudaine. "It is best to risk nothing, and to humor him." "Come, come," he said aloud; "no grumbling.
One of the female prisoners tried to help Trudaine in speaking consolingly to her; but the consummation of her husband's perfidy seemed to have paralyzed her at heart. She murmured once in her brother's ear, "Louis! I am resigned to die nothing but death is left for me after the degradation of having loved that man." She said those words and closed her eyes wearily, and spoke no more.
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