She is not responsible for her words--I assert it solemnly, in the face of the whole court!" The blood flew up into his white face as he made the asseveration.

Even at that supreme moment the great heart of the man reproached him for yielding himself to a deception, though the motive of it was to save his sister's life.
"Let her speak! let her speak!" exclaimed the women, as Rose, without moving, without looking at her brother, without seeming even to have heard what he said, made a second attempt to address her judges, in spite of Trudaine's interposition.
"Silence!" shouted the man with the bludgeon.

"Silence, you women! the citizen president is going to speak." "The prisoner Trudaine has the ear of the court," said the president, "and may continue his confession.

If the female prisoner wishes to speak, she may be heard afterward.

I enjoin both the accused persons to make short work of it with their addresses to me, or they will make their case worse instead of better.