My orders, however, were to bring you before the Committee of Public Safety, whether I had found proofs of your guilt or not.

I have found none." He was watching Deroulede keenly, hoping even at this eleventh hour to detect a look or a sign, which would furnish him with the proofs for which he was seeking.

The slightest suggestion of relief on Deroulede's part, a sigh of satisfaction, would have been sufficient at this moment, to convince him and the Committee of Public Safety that the Citizen-Deputy was guilty after all.
But Deroulede never moved.

He was sufficiently master of himself not to express either surprise or satisfaction.

Yet he felt both--satisfaction not for his own safety, but because of his mother and Anne Mie, whom he would immediately send out of the country, out of all danger; and also because of her, of Juliette Marny, his guest, who, whatever she may have done against him, had still a claim on his protection.