"Louis Longuemare, ex-noble, ex-capuchin, had long been practised in infamy and crime before committing the acts of treason for which he has to answer here. Living in a shameful promiscuity with the girl Gorcut, known as Athenais, under Brotteaux's very roof, he is the accomplice of the said girl and the said _ci-devant_ nobleman. During his imprisonment at the Conciergerie he has never ceased for one single day writing pamphlets aimed at the subversion of public liberty and security. "It is right to say, with regard to Marthe Gorcut, known as Athenais, that prostitutes are the greatest scourge of public morality, which they insult, and the opprobrium of the society which they disgrace. But why speak at length of revolting crimes which the accused confesses shamelessly...?" The accusation then proceeded to pass in review the fifty-four other prisoners, none of whom either Brotteaux, or the Pere Longuemare, or the _citoyenne_ Rochemaure, were acquainted with, except for having seen several of them in the prisons, but who were one and all included with the first named in "this odious plot, with which the annals of the nation can furnish nothing to compare." The piece concluded by demanding the penalty of death for all the culprits. Brotteaux was the first to be examined: "You were in the plot?" "No, I have been in no plots. Every word is untrue in the act of accusation I have just heard read." "There, you see; you are plotting still, at this moment, to discredit the Tribunal,"--and the President went on to the woman Rochemaure, who answered with despairing protestations of innocence, tears and quibblings. The Pere Longuemare referred himself purely and entirely to God's will. He had not even brought his written defence with him. All the questions put to him he answered in a spirit of resignation. Only, when the President spoke of him as a Capuchin, did the old Adam wake again in him: "I am not a Capuchin," he said, "I am a priest and a monk of the Order of the Barnabites." "It is the same thing," returned the President good-naturedly. The Pere Longuemare looked at him indignantly: "One cannot conceive a more extraordinary error," he cried, "than to confound with a Capuchin a monk of this Order of the Barnabites which derives its constitutions from the Apostle Paul himself." The remark was greeted with a burst of laughter and hooting from the spectators, at which the Pere Longuemare, taking this derision to betoken a denial of his proposition, announced that he would die a member of this Order of St. Barnabas, the habit of which he wore in his heart. "Do you admit," asked the President, "entering into plots with the girl Gorcut, known as Athenais, the same who accorded you her despicable favours?" At the question, the Pere Longuemare raised his eyes sorrowfully to heaven, but made no answer; his silence expressed the surprise of an unsophisticated mind and the gravity of a man of religion who fears to utter empty words.