Further, the
cardinal is enjoined to lay down his office as grand almoner within
a certain time, to remove to a certain distance from the royal
residence and not to visit the places where the royal family may be
living, and lastly, to remain in prison till the complete
termination of the trial."
The friends and dependants of the cardinal, the enemies and
persecutors of the queen, received this decision of the attorney-
general with vexation and anger; they found fault with the servility
of the man who would suffer the law to bow before the throne; they
made dishonorable remarks and calumnious innuendoes about the queen,
who, with her coquetry and the amount received from the jewels, had
gained over the judges, and who would, perhaps have appointed a
rendezvous with every one of them in order to gain him over to her
side.
"Even if the judges clear her," cried the sharp voice of Marat from
the heart of the crowd, "the people will pass sentence upon her. The
people are always right; the people cannot be bribed--they are like
God in this; and the people will not disown their verdict before the
beautiful eyes and the seductive smiles of the Austrian woman. The
people will not be made fools of; they will not believe in the story
of the counterfeited letters and the forged signature.
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