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She
then
related
that
,
by
the
permission
of
Elizabeth
,
she
had
passed
the
evening
of
the
night
on
which
the
murder
had
been
committed
at
the
house
of
an
aunt
at
Chene
,
a
village
situated
at
about
a
league
from
Geneva
.
On
her
return
,
at
about
nine
o'clock
,
she
met
a
man
who
asked
her
if
she
had
seen
anything
of
the
child
who
was
lost
.
She
was
alarmed
by
this
account
and
passed
several
hours
in
looking
for
him
,
when
the
gates
of
Geneva
were
shut
,
and
she
was
forced
to
remain
several
hours
of
the
night
in
a
barn
belonging
to
a
cottage
,
being
unwilling
to
call
up
the
inhabitants
,
to
whom
she
was
well
known
.
Most
of
the
night
she
spent
here
watching
;
towards
morning
she
believed
that
she
slept
for
a
few
minutes
;
some
steps
disturbed
her
,
and
she
awoke
.
It
was
dawn
,
and
she
quitted
her
asylum
,
that
she
might
again
endeavour
to
find
my
brother
.
If
she
had
gone
near
the
spot
where
his
body
lay
,
it
was
without
her
knowledge
.
That
she
had
been
bewildered
when
questioned
by
the
market-woman
was
not
surprising
,
since
she
had
passed
a
sleepless
night
and
the
fate
of
poor
William
was
yet
uncertain
.
Concerning
the
picture
she
could
give
no
account
.
"
I
know
,
"
continued
the
unhappy
victim
,
"
how
heavily
and
fatally
this
one
circumstance
weighs
against
me
,
but
I
have
no
power
of
explaining
it
;
and
when
I
have
expressed
my
utter
ignorance
,
I
am
only
left
to
conjecture
concerning
the
probabilities
by
which
it
might
have
been
placed
in
my
pocket
.
But
here
also
I
am
checked
.
I
believe
that
I
have
no
enemy
on
earth
,
and
none
surely
would
have
been
so
wicked
as
to
destroy
me
wantonly
.
Did
the
murderer
place
it
there
?
I
know
of
no
opportunity
afforded
him
for
so
doing
;
or
,
if
I
had
,
why
should
he
have
stolen
the
jewel
,
to
part
with
it
again
so
soon
?
"
I
commit
my
cause
to
the
justice
of
my
judges
,
yet
I
see
no
room
for
hope
.
I
beg
permission
to
have
a
few
witnesses
examined
concerning
my
character
,
and
if
their
testimony
shall
not
overweigh
my
supposed
guilt
,
I
must
be
condemned
,
although
I
would
pledge
my
salvation
on
my
innocence
.
"
Several
witnesses
were
called
who
had
known
her
for
many
years
,
and
they
spoke
well
of
her
;
but
fear
and
hatred
of
the
crime
of
which
they
supposed
her
guilty
rendered
them
timorous
and
unwilling
to
come
forward
.
Elizabeth
saw
even
this
last
resource
,
her
excellent
dispositions
and
irreproachable
conduct
,
about
to
fail
the
accused
,
when
,
although
violently
agitated
,
she
desired
permission
to
address
the
court
.
"
I
am
,
"
said
she
,
"
the
cousin
of
the
unhappy
child
who
was
murdered
,
or
rather
his
sister
,
for
I
was
educated
by
and
have
lived
with
his
parents
ever
since
and
even
long
before
his
birth
.
It
may
therefore
be
judged
indecent
in
me
to
come
forward
on
this
occasion
,
but
when
I
see
a
fellow
creature
about
to
perish
through
the
cowardice
of
her
pretended
friends
,
I
wish
to
be
allowed
to
speak
,
that
I
may
say
what
I
know
of
her
character
.
I
am
well
acquainted
with
the
accused
.
I
have
lived
in
the
same
house
with
her
,
at
one
time
for
five
and
at
another
for
nearly
two
years
.
During
all
that
period
she
appeared
to
me
the
most
amiable
and
benevolent
of
human
creatures
.
She
nursed
Madame
Frankenstein
,
my
aunt
,
in
her
last
illness
,
with
the
greatest
affection
and
care
and
afterwards
attended
her
own
mother
during
a
tedious
illness
,
in
a
manner
that
excited
the
admiration
of
all
who
knew
her
,
after
which
she
again
lived
in
my
uncle
's
house
,
where
she
was
beloved
by
all
the
family
.
She
was
warmly
attached
to
the
child
who
is
now
dead
and
acted
towards
him
like
a
most
affectionate
mother
.
For
my
own
part
,
I
do
not
hesitate
to
say
that
,
notwithstanding
all
the
evidence
produced
against
her
,
I
believe
and
rely
on
her
perfect
innocence
.
She
had
no
temptation
for
such
an
action
;
as
to
the
bauble
on
which
the
chief
proof
rests
,
if
she
had
earnestly
desired
it
,
I
should
have
willingly
given
it
to
her
,
so
much
do
I
esteem
and
value
her
.
"
A
murmur
of
approbation
followed
Elizabeth
's
simple
and
powerful
appeal
,
but
it
was
excited
by
her
generous
interference
,
and
not
in
favour
of
poor
Justine
,
on
whom
the
public
indignation
was
turned
with
renewed
violence
,
charging
her
with
the
blackest
ingratitude
.
She
herself
wept
as
Elizabeth
spoke
,
but
she
did
not
answer
.
My
own
agitation
and
anguish
was
extreme
during
the
whole
trial
.
I
believed
in
her
innocence
;
I
knew
it
.
Could
the
demon
who
had
(
I
did
not
for
a
minute
doubt
)
murdered
my
brother
also
in
his
hellish
sport
have
betrayed
the
innocent
to
death
and
ignominy
?
I
could
not
sustain
the
horror
of
my
situation
,
and
when
I
perceived
that
the
popular
voice
and
the
countenances
of
the
judges
had
already
condemned
my
unhappy
victim
,
I
rushed
out
of
the
court
in
agony
.
The
tortures
of
the
accused
did
not
equal
mine
;
she
was
sustained
by
innocence
,
but
the
fangs
of
remorse
tore
my
bosom
and
would
not
forgo
their
hold
.
I
passed
a
night
of
unmingled
wretchedness
.
In
the
morning
I
went
to
the
court
;
my
lips
and
throat
were
parched
.
I
dared
not
ask
the
fatal
question
,
but
I
was
known
,
and
the
officer
guessed
the
cause
of
my
visit
.
The
ballots
had
been
thrown
;
they
were
all
black
,
and
Justine
was
condemned
.
I
can
not
pretend
to
describe
what
I
then
felt
.
I
had
before
experienced
sensations
of
horror
,
and
I
have
endeavoured
to
bestow
upon
them
adequate
expressions
,
but
words
can
not
convey
an
idea
of
the
heart-sickening
despair
that
I
then
endured
.
The
person
to
whom
I
addressed
myself
added
that
Justine
had
already
confessed
her
guilt
.
