. The court of Empress Josephine : with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison. k out more openly, resumed your nephew,• the innocent soon becomes suspected, and he is thennot far removed from the scaffold ; on the bare suspicionthat he may cease to be innocent he is soon consigned tothe fate of a criminal. 11 You see the consequence, retorted Vadier, withless justice than ill humour ; we pronounce none to beguilty, we treat none as such except those who interferewith, oppose, or pervert, the principles of the you not possibly have spoken merely because,contrary to our
. The court of Empress Josephine : with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison. k out more openly, resumed your nephew,• the innocent soon becomes suspected, and he is thennot far removed from the scaffold ; on the bare suspicionthat he may cease to be innocent he is soon consigned tothe fate of a criminal. 11 You see the consequence, retorted Vadier, withless justice than ill humour ; we pronounce none to beguilty, we treat none as such except those who interferewith, oppose, or pervert, the principles of the you not possibly have spoken merely because,contrary to our expectation, and unconsciously on ourpart, this doctrine is applicable to you ? Woe to theguilty one who betrays himself! Woe much rather, exclaimed my husband, tothe tyrants who explain, or, to speak more correctly,who perplex their murderous system by the obscurityand artfulness of their metaphysics ! It is easy to parrythe thrust of a naked sword; and as President du Harlaywas wont to say, there is an immeasurable distance be-tween the heart of an honest man and the dagger of an. ig2 THE COURT .dered free from blame ? Would ita stretch of severity to prevent his^han to punish their consequences ? ^se dangerous and unmerited )f your ruler, rejoined M. de trarily raise upon treacherous ture of the most extravagant suppi id concluding that what is barely poss -tua^y true, yoiHi doom the innocent to death in order to prevent his facing into guilt. 11 Whosoeve£ is an ofoeckpf suspicion deserves tobe suspected. Z ^ ^ Speak outfmore op£ply v soon consigned to /> g ^ f| ^ W 1 our part, this doctrines applicablg; to y<. 3 the guilty one who betrays himself! Woe much rather, exclaimed my husband, * tothe tyrants who explain, or, to speak more correctly,who perplex their by the obscurity and artfulness of t It is easy to parry the thrust of a naked sword; and as President du Harlaywas wont to say, there is an immeasurable distance be-tween
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