The Chamber ought not to vote under the effect of that speech which had thrilled it so powerfully.

Thus Monferrand, though he still continued to smile, spent a few anxious moments in waiting to see if anybody would rise to answer him.
* Ever since the days of the Bourbon Restoration it has been the practice in the French Chambers for the more conservative members to seat themselves on the President's right, and for the Radical ones to place themselves on his left.

The central seats of the semicircle in which the members' seats are arranged in tiers are usually occupied by men of moderate views.
Generally speaking, such terms as Right Centre and Left Centre are applied to groups of Moderates inclining in the first place to Conservatism and in the latter to Radicalism.

All this is of course known to readers acquainted with French institutions, but I give the explanation because others, after perusing French news in some daily paper, have often asked me what was meant by "a deputy of the Right," and so forth .-- Trans.
His success had been as great among the occupants of the galleries as among the deputies themselves.

Several ladies had been seen applauding, and Monseigneur Martha had given unmistakable signs of the liveliest satisfaction.