Conscience — Volume 3

Name: Conscience — Volume 3
Author: Hector Malot

by Hector Malot

Pages: about 87
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
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As he did not reply to this cry of triumph, she looked at him in surprise. saw his face, pale, agitated, under the shock evidently of a violent emotion that she could not explain to herself.
"You do not wish to weaken my hope?" she said, not imagining that he could not think of this hope and of Florentin. This was a path to lead him out of his confusion. In following it he would have time to recover himself.
"You do not think that what Madame Dammauville saw proves Florentin's innocence?"
"Would what may be a proof for Madame Dammauville, for you, and for me, be one in the eyes of the law?"
"I saw you so joyful that I did not dare to interrupt you."
"Then you believe that this testimony is without value," she murmured, feeling crushed.
"I do not say that. We must reflect, weigh the pro and con, compass the situation from divers points of view; that is what I try to do, which is the cause of my preoccupation that astonishes you."
"You need not be crushed or carried away. Certainly, what this lady told you forms a considerable piece of work."
"Without any doubt. But in order that the testimony she gives may be of great consequence, the witness must be worthy of trust."
"I do not say that; but before all, it is necessary to know who she is."
"The widow of an attorney and landowner. Evidently this constitutes a social status that merits consideration from the law; but the moral state, what is it? You say that she is paralyzed?"
"Of what paralysis? That is a vague word for us others. There are paralyses that affect the sight; others that affect the mind. Is it one of these with which this lady is afflicted, or one of the others, which permitted her really to see, the evening of the assassination, that which she relates, and which leaves her mental faculties in a sane condition?

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Conscience — Volume 3

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