"We cannot save your friends; we can only reduce the penalty.

The sale which you induced Michu to make of his property will be taken as evident proof of your criminal intentions against the senator.

You sent your servants to Troyes so that you might be alone; that is all the more plausible because it is actually true.
The elder d'Hauteserre made an unfortunate speech to Beauvisage, which will be your ruin.

You yourself, mademoiselle, made another in your own courtyard, which proves that you have long shown ill-will to the possessor of Gondreville.

Besides, you were at the gate of the _rond-point_, apparently on the watch, about the time when the abduction took place; if they have not arrested you, it is solely because they fear to bring a sentimental element into the affair." "The case cannot be successfully defended," said Monsieur de Grandville.
"The less so," continued Bordin, "because we cannot tell the whole truth.