I require a counsellor whose voice will encourage me, for one is a bad judge of his own cause, and this crime has plunged me into an abyss of hesitations." "You know," replied M.Tabaret kindly, "that I regard you as my own son.
Do not scruple to let me serve you." "Know then," commenced the advocate,--"but no, not here: what I have to say must not be overheard.

Let us go into my study.".