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The appearance of Justine was calm. She was dressed in mourning,

and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the

solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful. Yet she

appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although

gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which

her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the

minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she

was supposed to have committed. She was tranquil, yet her

tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had

before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her

mind to an appearance of courage. When she entered the court she

threw her eyes round it and quickly discovered where we were

seated. A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she

quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection

seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.