She shuddered, and leaned back faintly on the arm which he extended to support her.

One of the female prisoners tried to help Trudaine in speaking consolingly to her; but the consummation of her husband's perfidy seemed to have paralyzed her at heart.

She murmured once in her brother's ear, "Louis! I am resigned to die--nothing but death is left for me after the degradation of having loved that man." She said those words and closed her eyes wearily, and spoke no more.
"One other question, and you may retire," resumed the president, addressing Danville.

"Were you cognizant of your wife's connection with her brother's conspiracy ?" Danville reflected for a moment, remembered that there were witnesses in court who could speak to his language and behavior on the evening of his wife's arrest, and resolved this time to tell the truth.
"I was not aware of it," he answered.

"Testimony in my favor can be called which will prove that when my wife's complicity was discovered I was absent from Paris." Heartlessly self-possessed as he was, the public reception of his last reply had shaken his nerve.