You say he has betrayed the cause for which you are fighting.

It is true, he has done so; but it is not only your cause which he has betrayed.

Is it not my cause also?
Is it not my brother's?
Is it not M.de Lescure's?
And if we can forgive him, should not you also do so too?
He has lived in this house as though he were a child of my father's.

You know that my brother has treated him as a brother.

Supposing that you, any of you, had had a brother who has done as he has done, would you not still pray, in spite of his crimes, that he might be forgiven?
I know you all love my brother.