8/55 Can he be going to sleep? All rascals of position--and I have had to do with more than one--are this sort. At the moment of arrest, they are incapable of anything; their heart fails them; but they recover themselves next day." "Upon my word, one would say he has gone to sleep! What a joke!" "I tell you, my friend," added the old man, pointedly, "that nothing is more natural. I am sure that, since the blow was struck, this young fellow has hardly lived: his body has been all on fire. Now he knows that his secret is out; and that quiets him." "Ha, ha! M.Balan, you are joking: you say that that quiets him ?" "Certainly. |