Remove your cousin from the room!' But she had again turned to him with a face which showed that even now all hope had not been abandoned.
'Sire,' she cried.

'You say that an example must be made.

There is Toussac--!' 'Ah, if I could lay my hands upon Toussac!' 'He is the dangerous man.

It was he and my father who led Lucien on.
If an example must be made it should be an example of the guilty rather than of the innocent.' 'They are both guilty.

And, besides, we have our hands upon the one but not upon the other.' 'But if I could find him ?' Napoleon thought for a moment.
'If you do,' said he, 'Lesage will be forgiven!' 'But I cannot do it in a day.' 'How long do you ask ?' 'A week at the least.' 'Then he has a respite of a week.