rents with grief? No. Then she must explain what
menaces forced her to do this, which surely was not her own idea.
And worse than all, she will be compelled to confess her love for
Tremorel."
"No," answered the detective. "Let us not exaggerate anything.
You know as well as I do that justice is most considerate with the
innocent victims of affairs of this sort."
"Consideration? Eh! Could justice protect her, even if it would,
from the publicity in which trials are conducted? You might touch
the magistrates' hearts; but there are fifty journalists who, since
this crime, have been cutting their pens and getting their paper
ready. Do you think that, to please us, they would suppress the
scandalous proceedings which I am anxious to avoid, and which the
noble name of the murderer would make a great sensation? Does not
this case unite every feature which gives success to judicial
dramas? Oh, there's nothing wanting, neither unworthy passion,
nor poison, nor vengeance, nor murder. Laurence represents in it
the romantic and sentimental element; she--my darling girl--will
become a heroine of the assizes; it is she who will attract the
readers of the Police Gazette; the reporters will tell when she
blushes and when she weeps; they will rival each other in describing
her toilet and bearing. Then there will be the photographers
besieging her, and if she refuses to sit, portraits of some hussy
of the street will be sold as hers. She will yearn to hide herself
--but where? Can a few locks and bars shelter her from eager
curiosity? She will become famous. What shame and misery! If she
is to be saved, Monsieur Lecoq, her name must not be spoken. I ask
of you, is it possible? Answer me."
The old man was very violent, yet his speech was simple, devoid of
the pompous phrases of passion. Anger lit up his eyes with a
strange fire; he seemed young again--he loved, and defended his
beloved.
M. Lecoq was silent; his companion insisted.
"Answer me."
"Who knows?"
"Why seek to mislead me? Ha
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.