Not a word about gratitude! Wait till you know the extent of your obligation.

I tell you plainly, at the outset, there is a motive of despair, as well as a motive of pity, at the bottom of the action in which I am now about to engage.

Silence! I insist on it.

Our time is short; it is for me to speak, and for you to listen.

The president of the tribunal has put the deathmark against your names on the prison list of to-day.