Perhaps for this reason judges are really greater safeguards for persons accused of wrong-doing than are juries.

A magistrate relies only on reason and its laws; juries are floated to and fro by the waves of sentiment.

The director of the jury accordingly set several questions before his mind, resolving to find in their solution satisfactory reasons for making the arrests.
Though the news of the abduction was already agitating the town of Troyes, it was still unknown at Arcis, where the inhabitants were supping when the messenger arrived to summon the gendarmes.

No one, of course, knew it in the village of Cinq-Cygne, the valley and the chateau of which were now, for the second time, encircled by gendarmes.
Laurence had only to tell Marthe, Catherine, and the Durieus not to leave the chateau, to be strictly obeyed.

After each trip to fetch the gold, the horses were fastened in the covered way opposite to the breach in the moat, and from there Robert and Michu, the strongest of the party, carried the sacks through the breach to a cellar under the staircase in the tower called Mademoiselle's.