Dead silence followed this announcement. Hope was just beginning to crowd anxiety and sullenness out of the way.
“Then poor Andre Legrand will be pardoned,” whispered a voice suddenly; “he was to have been guillotined to-day.”
“And Denise Latour! she was innocent enough, the gentle pigeon.”
“And they'll let poor Abbe Foucquet out of prison too.”
“And Francois!”
“And poor Felicite, who is blind!”
“M. l'Abbe would be wise to leave Boulogne with the children.”
“He will too: thou canst be sure of that!”
“It is not good to be a priest just now!”
“Bah! calotins are best dead than alive.”