m of the carriage,
which they all mounted themselves, and pursued their route to Belley.
In order to do so, they had to pass by Rey's body, on the road, which
Peytel wished to crush under the wheels of his carriage. It was to rob
him of 7,500 francs, said Peytel, that the attack had been made."

Our friend, the Procureur's Substitut, has dropped, here, the eloquent
and pathetic style altogether, and only gives the unlucky prisoner's
narrative in the baldest and most unimaginative style. How is a jury to
listen to such a fellow? they ought to condemn him, if but for making
such an uninteresting statement. Why not have helped poor Peytel with
some of those rhetorical graces which have been so plentifully bestowed
in the opening part of the act of accusation? He might have said:--

"Monsieur Peytel is an eminent notary at Belley; he is a man
distinguished for his literary and scientific acquirements; he has lived
long in the best society of the capital; he had been but a few months
married to that young and unfortunate lady, whose loss has plunged
her bereaved husband into despair--almost into madness. Some early
differences had marked, it is true, the commencement of their union; but
these, which, as can be proved by evidence, were almost all the unhappy
lady's fault,--had happily ceased, to give place to sentiments far more
delightful and tender. Gentlemen, Madame Peytel bore in her bosom a
sweet pledge of future concord between herself and her husband: in three
brief months she was to become a mother.

"In the exercise of his honorable profession,--in which, to succeed,
a man must not only have high talents, but undoubted probity,--and,
gentlemen, Monsieur Peytel DID succeed--DID inspire respect and
confidence, as you, his neighbors, well know;--in the exercise, I say,
of his high calling, Monsieur Peytel, towards the end of October last,
had occasion to make a journey in the neighborhood, and visit some of
his many clients.

"He travelled in his own carriage, his young wife beside him. Does this
look like want of affection, gentlemen? or is it not a mark of love--of
love and paternal care on his part towards the being with whom his lot
in life was linked,--the mother of his coming child,--the young girl,
who had everything to gain from the union with a man of his attainments
of intellect, his kind temper, his great experience, and his high
position? In this manner they travelled, side by side, lovingly
together. Mo