y rose to open for the
Government in a lengthy and able speech.

In the gallery, among the fluttering fans, Jacqueline asked herself if
her rising and quitting the place would disturb those about her. She was
in the very front, beside the gallery rail, there was a great crowd
behind, she must stay it out. She bit her lip, forced back emotion,
strove with resolution to conquer the too visionary aspect of all things
before her. It had been foolish, she knew now, to come. She had not
dreamed with what strong and feverish grasp such a scene could take
prisoner the imagination. She saw too plainly much that was not there;
she brought other figures into the Hall; abstractions and realities,
they thronged the place. The place itself widened until to her inner
sense it was as wide as her world and her life. Fontenoy was there and
the house on the Three-Notched Road; Roselands, and much besides. For
all the heat, and the fluttering of the fans, and the roll of
declamation from the District Attorney, who was now upon the definition
of treason, one night in February was there as well, the night that had
seen so much imperilled, the night that had seen, thank God! the cloud
go by. Of all the images that thronged upon her, creating a strange
tumult of the soul, darkening her eyes and driving the faint colour from
her cheek, the image of that evening was the most insistent. It was,
perhaps, aided by her fancy that in that cool survey of the Hall in
which the prisoner indulged himself, his eyes, keen and darting as a
snake's, had rested for a moment upon her face. She could have said
that there was in them a curious light of recognition, even a cool
amusement, a sarcasm,--the very memory of the look made for her a
trouble vague, but deep! Had he, too, given a thought to that evening,
to the man whom he did not secure, and to the woman with whom he had
talked of black lace and Spanish songs? She wondered. But why should
Colonel Burr be amused, and why sarcastic? She abandoned the enquiry and
listened to the heavy lumbering up of Government cannon. "Courts of
Great Britain--Foster's Crown Laws--Demaree and Purchase--Vaughan--Lord
George Gordon--Throgmorton--United States _vs._ Fries--Opinion of Judge
Chase--Of Judge Iredell--Overt Act--Overt Act proven--Arms, array and
treasonable purpose; here is bellum levatum if not bellum
percussum-Treason and traitors, not potential but actual--their
discovery and their punishment--"

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