From early morning, from the time they had been led into court, he had been suffocating from an intolerable palpitation of his heart.

Perspiration came out in drops all along his forehead; his hands were also perspiring and cold, and his cold, sweat-covered shirt clung to his body, interfering with the freedom of his movements.

With a supernatural effort of will-power he forced his fingers not to tremble, his voice to be firm and distinct, his eyes to be calm.

He saw nothing about him; the voices came to him as through a mist, and it was to this mist that he made his desperate efforts to answer firmly, to answer loudly.

But having answered, he immediately forgot question as well as answer, and was again struggling with himself silently and terribly.
Death was disclosed in him so clearly that the judges avoided looking at him.