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Tranquillity

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           Whenthenameswereselectedbyballotonthefollowingday,M.deFrilairexperiencedagenuinepleasureinfindingthattheycontainedfivemembersoftheBesançoncongregationandthatamongstthosewhowerestrangerstothetownwerethenamesofMM.Valenod,deMoirod,deCholin.IcananswerfortheseeightjurymenhesaidtoMathilde.Thefirstfivearemeremachines,Valenodismyagent:Moirodowesmeeverything:deCholinisanimbecilewhoisfrightenedofeverything.

           Thejournalpublishedthenamesofthejurymenthroughoutthedepartment,andtoherhusband’sunspeakableterror,madamedeRênalwishedtogotoBesançon.AllthatM.deRênalcouldprevailonhertopromisewasthatshewouldnotleaveherbedsoastoavoidtheunpleasantnessofbeingcalledtogiveevidence."Youdonotunderstandmyposition,"saidtheformermayorofVerrières."IamnowsaidtobedisloyalandaLiberal.NodoubtthatscoundrelValenodandM.deFrilairwillgettheprocureur-generalandthejudgestodoalltheycantocausemeunpleasantness."

           MadamedeRênalfoundnodifficultyinyieldingtoherhusband’sorders."IfIappearattheassizecourt,"shesaidtoherself,"IshouldseemasifIwereaskingforvengeance."Inspiteofallthepromisesshehadmadetothedirectorofherconscienceandtoherhusbandthatshewouldbediscreet,shehadscarcelyarrivedatBesançonbeforeshewrotewithherownhandtoeachofthethirty-sixjurymen:

           "Ishallnotappearonthedayofthetrial,monsieur,becausemypresencemightbeprejudicialtoM.Sorel’scase.

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