So the word went around to watch out for De Ville, and no one dared be more than barely civil to his wife.
"--looked at King Wallace and King Wallace looked at her, while De Ville looked black.
"De Ville was in a pretty mess--I helped to scrape him off; but he was cool as a cucumber and made no threats at all.
All the rest of the people in the dressing tent were watching the same thing, with the exception of De Ville whom I noticed staring at Wallace with undisguised hatred.
De Ville drew his handkerchief from his pocket, made as though to mop the sweat from his face with it (it was a hot day), and at the same time walked past Wallace's back.
"'De Ville will bear watching,' I said to myself, and I really breathed easier when I saw him go out the entrance to the circus grounds and board an electric car for down town.
"Snuff--that De Ville dropped on his hair in the dressing tent.
"If the king has signed, the gibbets will be sent this evening to the Hotel de Ville, in order to be got up and ready by to-morrow morning."
"But as I go to the Louvre, I will pass by the Hotel de Ville. We shall see if the sentence is signed."
"I shall be back in an hour; rest easy, abbe." Then aside to Gourville -- "Let them put to my English horses," said he, "and direct the coachman to stop at the Hotel de Ville de Paris."
It was now his turn to look about him; the Hotel de
Ville, a massive sixteenth century building, was on his right; any one could descend from the openings in the tower, and examine every corner of the roof below, and Andrea expected momentarily to see the head of a gendarme appear at one of these openings.
Saint Antoine's blood was up, and the blood of tyranny and domination by the iron hand was down--down on the steps of the Hotel de
Ville where the governor's body lay--down on the sole of the shoe of Madame Defarge where she had trodden on the body to steady it for mutilation.
Dans un communique publie mercredi soir par le Bureau d'information, le Conseil presidentiel a felicite les habitants de Ghariane "pour avoir empeche la tentative d'infiltrer dans les lignes de defenses de la
ville" par les forces du commandement general, revelant que les forces du Gouvernement d'union nationale ont arrete le commandant de la salle d'operations des troupes de Khakifa Haftar dans la
ville, sans preciser son nom, ni le moment et les circonstances de son arrestation.
