Georges was far from exciting the interest inspired by Moreau.  He was an object of curiosity rather than of interest.  The difference of their previous conduct was in itself sufficient to occasion a great contrast in their situation before the Court.  Moreau was full of confidence and Georges full of resignation.  The latter regarded his fate with a fierce kind of resolution.  He occasionally resumed the caustic tone which he seemed to have renounced when he harangued his associates before their departure from the Temple.  With the most sarcastic bitterness he alluded to the name and vote of Thuriot, one of the most violent of the judges, often terming him ‘Tue-roi’;

     —­[Thuriot and the President Hemart both voted for the death of the
     King.  Merlin, the imperial Procureur-General, was one of the
     regicides.—­Bourrienne.]—­

and after pronouncing his name, or being forced to reply to his interrogatories, he would ask for a glass of brandy to wash his mouth.

Georges had the manners and bearing of a rude soldier; but under his coarse exterior he concealed the soul of a hero.  When the witnesses of his arrest had answered the questions of the President Hemart, this judge turned towards the accused, and inquired whether he had anything to say in reply.—­“No.”—­“Do you admit the facts?”—­“Yes.”  Here Georges busied himself in looking over the papers which lay before him, when Hemart warned him to desist, and attend to the questions.  The following dialogue then commenced.  “Do you confess having been arrested in the place designated by the witness?”—­“I do not know the name of the place.”—­“Do you confess having been arrested?”—­“Yes.”—­” Did you twice fire a pistol?”—­“Yes.”—­“Did you kill a man?”—­“Indeed I do not know.”—­ “Had you a poniard?”—­“Yes.”—­“And two pistols?”—­” Yes.”—­“Who was in company with you?”—­“I do not know the person.”—­” Where did you lodge in Paris?”—­” Nowhere.”—­“At the time of your arrest did you not reside in the house of a fruiterer in the Rue de la Montagne St. Genevieve?”—­ “At the time of my arrest I was in a cabriolet.  I lodged nowhere.”—­ “Where did you sleep on the evening of your arrest?”—­“Nowhere.”—­“What were you doing in Paris?”—­“I was walking about.”—­” Whom have you seen in Paris?”—­” I shall name no one; I know no one.”

From this short specimen of the manner in which Georges replied to the questions of the President we may judge of his unshaken firmness during the proceedings.  In all that concerned himself he was perfectly open; but in regard to whatever tended to endanger his associates he maintained the most obstinate silence, notwithstanding every attempt to overcome his firmness.