eleven o’clock
The president summed up the case with all the more impartiality because it was evident that the minds of the jurors were already made up . He even turned the scales in favor of the prisoners by dwelling on the senator 's evidence . This clemency , however , did not in the least endanger the success of the prosecution . At eleven o'clock that night , after the jury had replied through their foreman to the usual questions , the Court condemned Michu to death , the Messieurs de Simeuse to twenty-four years ' and the Messieurs d'Hauteserre to ten years , penal servitude at hard labor . Gothard was acquitted . The whole audience was eager to observe the bearing of the five guilty men in this supreme moment of their lives . The four gentlemen looked at Laurence , who returned them , with dry eyes , the ardent look of the martyrs .