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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER XI
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Finally, and this in any case, it should have sat robed on the Judges' Bench, with all magisterial state, and when the police agent and his soldiers appeared should have ordered the soldiers, who perhaps would have obeyed them, to arrest the agent, and if the soldiers had disobeyed, should have allowed themselves to be formally dragged to prison, so that the people could see, under their own eyes, out in the open street, the filthy hoof of the _coup d'etat_ trampling upon the robe of Justice.
Instead of this, what steps did the High Court take?
We have just seen.
"Be off with you!" "We are going." We can imagine, after a very different fashion, the dialogue between Mathieu Mole and Vidocq.
[4] This line was left blank.

It was filled in later on with the name of M.Renouard, Councillor of the Court of Cassation..


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