After several pages of this interrogation, Beaumarchais gives us, “The Confrontation of Madame Goëzman With Me.” From which we give the following extracts:
“I took the liberty of saying, ‘To-day, Madame, it is I who hold the attack, we shall first take up your interrogations.’
“I took the papers to run them over.
“‘What? This Monsieur here, has he the liberty to read all that I have been made to write?’
“‘It is a right, Madame, which I shall use with all possible deference. In your first interrogation, for instance, to the sixteen consecutive questions upon the same subject, that is, to know whether you received one hundred louis from Le-Jay to procure an audience for le sieur Beaumarchais I see to the great honor of your discretion that the sixteen replies are not charged with any superfluous ornaments.
“‘Questioned as to whether you have received one hundred louis in two rolls?’
“You reply, ‘That is false.’
“‘If you put them in a case ornamented with flowers?’
“‘That is not true.’
“‘If you kept them until the day after the suit?’