MME. THOMAS. My counsel will do it better than me.
PRESIDENT. We’ll see about that.
COUNSEL [with a smile] It might, perhaps, be well for you, President, not to contemn in advance the rights of the defence.
PRESIDENT [irritated] Maître Verdier, you have no right to address me! And you will be good enough to moderate your expressions. I regret to say that from the opening of this case you have adopted an attitude that you can, perhaps, carry off at Paris, but that I shall certainly not countenance here. Pray take notice of that.
COUNSEL. At the Paris bar—
PRESIDENT. I cannot hear you now.
COUNSEL. At the Paris—
PRESIDENT. I cannot hear you now! Kindly be seated.
MME. D’AMERGUEUX [among the public, to her neighbor, M. de Forgeau] What an excellent judge M. Calvon is. He is to dine with us tomorrow: I shall congratulate him.
M. DE FORGEAU. A judge of the old stamp.