"Is this where you live, Maurice? You need have little fear of intruders. One must be an imp8 or a cat to find you here."
"I am cramped9 for space," returned the ci-devant millionaire; "and I do not deny the fact that sometimes it rains on my pallet. It is a trifling10 inconvenience. And on fine nights I can see the moon, symbol and confidant of men's loves. For the moon, Madame, since the world began, has been apostrophized by lovers, and at her full, with her pale round face, she recalls to the fond swain's mind the object of his desires."
"I know," sighed the citoyenne.
"When their time comes the cats make a fine pandemonium11 in the rain gutter12 yonder. But we must forgive love if it makes them caterwaul and swear on the tiles, seeing how it fills the lives of men with torments13 and villanies."
Both had had the tact14 to greet each other as friends who had parted the night before to take their night's rest, and though grown strangers to each other, they conversed15 with a good grace and on a footing of friendliness16.
At the same time Madame de Rochemaure seemed pensive17. The Revolution, which had for a long while been pleasant and profitable to her, was now a source of anxiety and disquietude; her suppers were growing less brilliant and less merry. The notes of her harp18 no longer charmed the cloud from sombre faces. Her play-tables were forsaken19 by the most lavish20 punters. Many of her cronies, now numbered among the suspects, were in hiding; her lover, Morhardt the financier, was under arrest, and it was on his behalf she had come to sound the juror Gamelin. She was suspect herself. A posse of National Guards had made a search at her house, had turned out the drawers of her cabinets, prised up boards in her floor, thrust their bayonets into her mattresses21. They had found nothing, had made their apologies and drunk her wine. But they had come very near lighting22 on her correspondence with an émigré, Monsieur d'Expilly. Certain friends he had among the Jacobins had warned her that Henry, her handsome favourite, was beginning to compromise his party by his violent language, which was too extravagant23 to be sincere.
Elbows on knees and head on fist, she sat buried in thought; then turning to her old lover sitting on the palliasse, she asked:
"What do you think of it all, Maurice?"
"I think these good gentry24 give a philosopher and an amateur of the shows of life abundant matter for reflection and amusement; but that it would be better for you, my dear, if you were out of France."
"Maurice, where will it land us?"
"That is what you asked me, Louise, one day we were driving on the banks of the Cher, on the road to Les Ilettes; the horse, you remember, had taken the bit in his teeth and was galloping25 off with us at a frantic26 pace. How inquisitive27 women are! to-day, for the second time, you want to know where we are going to. Ask the fortune-tellers. I am not a wizard, sweetheart. And philosophy, even the soundest, is of small help for revealing the future. These things will have an end; everything has. One may foresee divers28 issues. The triumph of the Coalition29 and the entry of the allies into Paris. They are not far off; yet I doubt if they will get there. These soldiers of the Republic take their beatings with a zest30 nothing can extinguish. It may be Robespierre will marry Madame Royale and have himself proclaimed Protector of the Kingdom during the minority of Louis XVII."
"Again it may be," Brotteaux went on, "that La Vendée will win the day and the rule of the priests be set up again over heaps of ruins and piles of corpses34. You cannot conceive, dear heart, the empire the clergy35 still wields36 over the masses of the foolish,... I beg pardon, I meant to say,—of 'the Faithful'; it was a slip of the tongue. The most likely thing, in my poor opinion, is that the Revolutionary Tribunal will bring about the destruction of the régime it has established; it is a menace over too many heads. Those it terrifies are without number; they will unite together, and to destroy it they will destroy the whole system of government. I think you have got our young friend Gamelin posted to this court. He is virtuous37; he will be implacable. The more I think of it, fair friend, the more convinced I am that this Tribunal, set up to save the Republic, will destroy it. The Convention has resolved to have, like Royalty38, its Grands Jours,[5] its Chambre Ardente, and to provide for its security by means of magistrates40 appointed by itself and by it kept in subjection. But how inferior are the Convention's Grands Jours to those of the Monarchy41, and its Chambre Ardente to that of Louis XIV! The Revolutionary Tribunal is dominated by a sentiment of mean-spirited justice and common equality that will quickly make it odious42 and ridiculous and will disgust everybody. Do you know, Louise, that this tribunal, which is about to cite to its bar the Queen of France and twenty-one legislators, yesterday condemned43 a servant-girl convicted of crying: 'Vive le Roi!' with malicious44 intent and in the hope of destroying the Republic? Our judges, with their black hats and plumes45, are working on the model of that William Shakespeare, so dear to the heart of Englishmen, who drags in coarse buffooneries in the middle of his most tragic46 scenes."
"Ah, well! Maurice," asked the citoyenne, "are you still as fortunate as ever with women?"
"Alas47!" replied Brotteaux, "the doves flock to the bright new dovecote and light no more on the ruined tower."
"You have not changed.... Good-bye, dear friend,—till we meet again."
The same evening the dragoon Henry, paying a visit uninvited at Madame de Rochemaure's, found her in the act of sealing a letter on which he read the address of the citoyen Rauline at Vernon. The letter, he knew, was for England. Rauline used to receive Madame de Rochemaure's communications by a postilion of the posting-service and send them on to Dieppe by the hands of a fishwife. The master of a fishing-smack delivered them under cover of night to a British ship cruising off the coast; an émigré, Monsieur d'Expilly, received them in London and passed them on, if he thought it advisable, to the Cabinet of Saint James's.
Henry was young and good looking; Achilles was not such a paragon48 of grace and vigour49 when he donned the armour50 Ulysses offered him. But the citoyenne Rochemaure, once so enraptured51 by the charms of the young hero of the Commune, now looked askance at him; her mood had changed since the day she was told how the young soldier had been denounced at the Jacobins as one whose zeal52 outran discretion53 and that he might compromise and ruin her. Henry thought it might not break his heart perhaps to leave off loving Madame de Rochemaure; but he was piqued54 to have fallen in her good graces. He counted on her to meet sundry55 expenses in which the service of the Republic had involved him. Last but not least, remembering to what extremities56 women will proceed and how they go in a flash from the most ardent39 tenderness to the coldest indifference57, and how easy they find it to sacrifice what once they held dear and destroy what once they adored, he began to suspect that some day his fascinating mistress might have him thrown into prison to get rid of him. Common prudence58 urged him to regain59 his lost ascendancy60 and to this end he had come armed with all his fascinations61. He came near, drew away, came near again, hovered62 round her, ran from her, in the approved fashion of seduction in the ballet. Then he threw himself in an armchair and in his irresistible63 voice, his voice that went straight to women's hearts, he extolled64 the charms of nature and solitude65 and with a lovelorn sigh proposed an expedition to Ermenonville.
Meanwhile she was striking chords on her harp and looking about her with an expression of impatience66 and boredom67. Suddenly Henry got up with a gesture of gloomy resolution and informed her that he was starting for the army and in a few days would be before Maubeuge.
Without a sign either of scepticism or surprise she nodded her approval.
"You congratulate me on my decision?"
"I do indeed."
She was expecting a new admirer who was infinitely68 to her taste and from whom she hoped to reap great advantages,—a contrast in every way to the old, a Mirabeau come to life again, a Danton rehabilitated69 and turned army-contractor, a lion who talked of pitching every patriot70 into the Seine. She was on tenter-hooks, thinking to hear the bell ring at any moment.
To hasten Henry's departure, she fell silent, yawned, fingered a score, and yawned again. Seeing he made no move to go, she told him she had to go out and withdrew into her dressing-room.
He called to her in a broken voice:
"Farewell, Louise!... Shall I ever see you again?"—and his hands were busy fumbling71 in the open writing-desk.
When he reached the street, he opened the letter addressed to the citoyen Rauline and read it with absorbed attention. Indeed it drew a curious picture of the state of public feeling in France. It spoke72 of the Queen, of the actress Rose Thévenin, of the Revolutionary Tribunal and a host of confidential73 remarks emanating74 from that worthy75, Brotteaux des Ilettes, were repeated in it.
Having read to the end and restored the missive to his pocket, he stood hesitating a few moments; then, like a man who has made up his mind and says to himself "the sooner the better," he turned his steps to the Tuileries and found his way into the antechamber of the Committee of General Security.
The same day, at three o'clock of the afternoon, évariste Gamelin was seated on the jurors' bench along with fourteen colleagues, most of whom he knew, simple-minded, honest, patriotic77 folks, savants, artists or artisans,—a painter like himself, an artist in black-and-white, both men of talent, a surgeon, a cobbler, a ci-devant marquis, who had given high proofs of patriotism78, a printer, two or three small tradesmen, a sample lot in a word of the inhabitants of Paris. There they sat, in the workman's blouse or bourgeois79 coat, with their hair close-cropped à la Titus or clubbed à la catogan; there were cocked-hats tilted80 over the eyes, round hats clapped on the back of the head, red caps of liberty smothering81 the ears. Some were dressed in coat, flapped waistcoat and breeches, as in olden days, others in the carmagnole and striped trousers of the sansculottes. Wearing top-boots or buckled82 shoes or sabots, they offered in their persons every variety of masculine attire83 prevalent at that date. Having all of them occupied their places on several previous occasions, they seemed very much at their ease, and Gamelin envied them their unconcern. His own heart was thumping84, his ears roaring; a mist was before his eyes and everything about him took on a livid tinge85.
When the usher86 announced the opening of the sitting, three judges took their places on a raised platform of no great size in front of a green table. They wore hats cockaded and crowned with great black plumes and the official cloak with a tricolour riband from which a heavy silver medal was suspended on the breast. In front of them at the foot of the da?s, sat the deputy of the Public Prosecutor87, similarly attired88. The clerk of the court had a seat between the judges' bench and the prisoner's chair, at present unoccupied. To Gamelin's eyes these men wore a different aspect from that of every day; they seemed nobler, graver, more alarming, albeit89 their bearing was commonplace enough as they turned over papers, beckoned90 to an usher or leant back to listen to some communication from a juryman or an officer of the court.
Above the judges' heads hung the tables of the Rights of Man; to their right and left, against the old feudal91 walls, the busts92 of Le Peltier Saint-Fargeau and Marat. Facing the jury bench, at the lower end of the hall, rose the public gallery. The first row of seats was filled by women, who all, fair, brown and grey-haired alike, wore the high coif with the pleated tucker shading their cheeks; the breast, which invariably, as decreed by the fashion of the day, showed the amplitude93 of the nursing mother's bosom94, was covered with a crossed white kerchief or the rounded bib of a blue apron95. They sat with folded arms resting on the rail of the tribune. Behind them, scattered96 about the rising tiers, could be seen a sprinkling of citizens dressed in the varied97 garb98 which at that date gave every gathering99 so striking and picturesque100 a character. On the right hand, near the doors, behind a broad barrier, a space was reserved where the public could stand. On this occasion it was nearly empty. The business that was to occupy the attention of this particular section of the tribunal interested only a few spectators, while doubtless the other sections sitting at the same hour would be hearing more exciting cases.
This fact somewhat reassured101 Gamelin; his heart was like to fail him as it was, and he could not have endured the heated atmosphere of one of the great days. His eyes took in the most trifling details of the scene,—the cotton-wool in the greffier's ear and a blot102 of ink on the Deputy Prosecutor's papers. He could see, as through a magnifying glass, the capitals of the pillars sculptured at a time when all knowledge of the classical orders was forgotten and which crowned the Gothic columns with wreaths of nettle103 and holly104. But wherever he looked, his gaze came back again and again to the fatal chair; this was of an antiquated105 make, covered in red Utrecht velvet106, the seat worn and the arms blackened with use. Armed National Guards stood guarding every door.
At last the accused appeared, escorted by grenadiers, but with limbs unbound, as the law directed. He was a man of fifty or thereabouts, lean and dry, with a brown face, a very bald head, hollow cheeks and thin livid lips, dressed in an out-of-date coat of a sanguine107 red. No doubt it was fever that made his eyes glitter like jewels and gave his cheeks their shiny, varnished108 look. He took his seat. His legs, which he crossed, were extraordinarily109 spare and his great knotted hands met round the knees they clasped. His name was Marie-Adolphe Guillergues, and he was accused of malversation in the supply of forage110 to the Republican troops. The act of indictment111 laid to his charge numerous and serious offences, of which no single one was positively112 certain. Under examination, Guillergues denied the majority of the charges and explained the rest in a light favourable113 to himself. He spoke in a cold, precise way, with a marked ability and gave the impression of being a dangerous man to have business dealings with. He had an answer for everything. When the judge asked him an embarrassing question, his face remained unmoved and his voice confident, but his two hands, folded on his breast, kept twitching114 in an agony. Gamelin was struck by this and whispered to the colleague sitting next him, a painter like himself:
"Watch his thumbs!"
The first witness to depose115 alleged116 a number of most damaging facts. He was the mainstay of the prosecution117. Those on the other hand who followed showed themselves well disposed to the prisoner. The Deputy of the Public Prosecutor spoke strongly, but did not go beyond generalities. The advocate for the defence adopted a tone of bluff118 conviction of his client's innocence119 that earned the accused a sympathy he had failed to secure by his own efforts. The sitting was suspended and the jury assembled in the room set apart for deliberation. There, after a confused and confusing discussion, they found themselves divided in two groups about equal in number. On the one side were the unemotional, the lukewarm, the men of reason, whom no passion could stir, on the other the kind who let their feelings guide them, who prove all but inaccessible120 to argument and only consult their heart. These always voted guilty. They were the true metal, pure and unadulterated; their only thought was to save the Republic and they cared not a straw for anything else. Their attitude made a strong impression on Gamelin who felt he was of the same kidney himself.
"This Guillergues," he thought to himself, "is a cunning scamp, a villain121 who has speculated in the forage supplied to our cavalry122. To acquit123 him is to let a traitor124 escape, to be false to the fatherland, to devote the army to defeat." And in a flash Gamelin could see the Hussars of the Republic, mounted on stumbling horses, sabred by the enemy's cavalry.... "But if Guillergues was innocent...?"
Suddenly he remembered Jean Blaise, likewise suspected of bad faith in the matter of supplies. There were bound to be many others acting125 like Guillergues and Blaise, contriving126 disaster, ruining the Republic! An example must be made. But if Guillergues was innocent...?
"There are no proofs," said Gamelin, aloud.
"There never are," retorted the foreman of the jury, shrugging his shoulders; he was good metal, pure metal!
In the end, there proved to be seven votes for condemnation127, eight for acquittal.
The jury re-entered the hall and the sitting was resumed. The jurors were required to give reasons for their verdict, and each spoke in turn facing the empty chair. Some were prolix128, others confined themselves to a sentence; one or two talked unintelligible129 gabble.
When Gamelin's turn came, he rose and said:
"In presence of a crime so heinous130 as that of robbing the defenders131 of the fatherland of the sinews of victory, we need formal proofs which we have not got."
By a majority of votes the accused was declared not guilty.
Guillergues was brought in again and stood before his judges amid a hum of sympathy from the spectators which conveyed the news of his acquittal to him. He was another man. His features had lost their harshness, his lips were relaxed again. He looked venerable; his face bore the impression of innocence. The President read out in tones of emotion the verdict releasing the prisoner; the audience broke into applause. The gendarme132 who had brought Guillergues in threw himself into his arms. The President called him to the da?s and gave him the embrace of brotherhood133. The jurors kissed him, while Gamelin's eyes rained hot tears.
The courtyard of the Palais, dimly lighted by the last rays of the setting sun, was filled with a howling, excited crowd. The four sections of the Tribunal had the day before pronounced thirty sentences of death, and on the steps of the Great Stairway a throng134 of tricoteuses squatted135 to see the tumbrils start. But Gamelin, as he descended136 the steps among the press of jurors and spectators, saw nothing, heard nothing but his own act of justice and humanity and the self-congratulation he felt at having recognized innocence. In the courtyard stood élodie, all in white, smiling through her tears; she threw herself into his arms and lay there half fainting. When she had recovered her voice, she said to him:
"évariste, you are noble, you are good, you are generous! In the hall there, your voice, so gentle and manly137, went right through me with its magnetic waves. It electrified138 me. I gazed at you on your bench, I could see no one but you. But you, dear heart, you never guessed I was there? Nothing told you I was present? I sat in the gallery in the second row to the right. By heaven! how sweet it is to do the right! you saved that unhappy man's life. Without you, it was all over with him; he was as good as dead. You have given him back to life and the love of his friends. At this moment he must bless you. évariste, how happy I am and how proud to love you!"
Arm in arm, pressed close to one another, they went along the streets; their bodies felt so light they seemed to be flying.
They went to the Amour peintre. On reaching the Oratoire:
"Better not go through the shop," élodie suggested.
She made him go in by the main coach-door and mount the stairs with her to the suite139 of rooms above. On the landing she drew out of her reticule a heavy iron key.
"It might be the key of a prison," she exclaimed, "évariste, you are going to be my prisoner."
They crossed the dining-room and were in the girl's bedchamber.
évariste felt upon his the ardent freshness of élodie's lips. He pressed her in his arms; with head thrown back and swooning eyes, her hair flowing loose over her relaxed form, half fainting, she escaped his hold and ran to shoot the bolt....
The night was far advanced when the citoyenne Blaise opened the outer door of the flat for her lover and whispered to him in the darkness.
"Good-bye, sweetheart! it is the hour my father will be coming home. If you hear a noise on the stairs, go up quick to the higher floor and don't come down till all danger is over of your being seen. To have the street-door opened, give three raps on the concierge's window. Good-bye, my life, good-bye, my soul!"
When he found himself in the street, he saw the window of élodie's chamber76 half unclose and a little hand pluck a red carnation140, which fell at his feet like a drop of blood.
FOOTNOTES:
[5] Grands Jours,—under the ancien régime, an extraordinary assize held by judges specially141 appointed by the King and acting in his name.
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