. La Comedie Humaine . some error of the word, therefore, brings an imperceptible smile tothe lips of those who have to do with accused, indicted,and convicted persons. u I will mention your requests to the examiningjudge, said the director. I bless you for that, monsieur, replied Herrera,raising his eyes to heaven. As soon as the formalities were over, Carlos Herrera,supported under each arm by two municipal guards,and accompanied by a turnkey, to whom the directornamed the solitary cell in which he was to place theaccused person, was conducted, through the subterra-nean labyrinth of
. La Comedie Humaine . some error of the word, therefore, brings an imperceptible smile tothe lips of those who have to do with accused, indicted,and convicted persons. u I will mention your requests to the examiningjudge, said the director. I bless you for that, monsieur, replied Herrera,raising his eyes to heaven. As soon as the formalities were over, Carlos Herrera,supported under each arm by two municipal guards,and accompanied by a turnkey, to whom the directornamed the solitary cell in which he was to place theaccused person, was conducted, through the subterra-nean labyrinth of the Conciergerie to a room that wasperfectly healthy (in spite of what philanthropists havesaid), but without any possible external communication. When he had been safely secured there, the jailers,the director, his clerk, and even the gendarmes lookedat each other as if to ask opinions, and on all thesefaces a certain doubt was depicted. But on the ar- Carlos Herrera, supported under each arm by two municipal Precede Goupil Lucien de Rubempre. 257 rival of the other accused person who was now broughtin, they recovered their usual air of complete indiffer-ence. Unless under very extraordinary circumstancesthe employes of the Conciergerie have little curiosity;criminals are to them what customers are to a formalities which would frighten the imagina-tion of others are conducted by them as simply asa banker does business, and often more appearance was that of a broken-down cul-prit ; he abandoned himself wholly and allowed them todo what they pleased with him. From the moment ofhis arrest at Foutainebleau, the poet considered himselfruined ; he felt that the moment of expiation had , undone, ignorant of all that had happened as toEsther, he knew only that he was the intimate com^panion of an escaped galley-slave. That situationwas enough to make him foresee catastrophes that wereworse than death. If his thoughts turned to anythingres
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