There remained the last recourse of appealing to the mercy of the President of the Republic: perhaps he might pardon her....

And she signed this appeal with sudden hope.
The lawyer managed to delay the fulfillment of the sentence for two months, visiting many of his colleagues who were political personages.
The desire of saving the life of his client was tormenting him as an obsession.

He had devoted all his activity and his personal influence to this affair.
"In love!...

In love, as you were!" said, with scornful accent, the voice of Ferragut's prudent counselor.
The periodicals were protesting against this delay in the execution of the sentence.

The name of Freya Talberg was beginning to be heard in conversation as an argument against the weakness of the government.