Chapter

 1 III  |       in order to save them, an act of gallantry so common in
 2 V    |         proces-verbal, a formal act reserved for the officers
 3 V    | unwittingly, was now obliged to act as his own executioner. “
 4 VII  |     court, an otherwise trivial act is fraught with serious
 5 VII  |      attempting so desperate an act?”~
 6 VIII |      apprehended for a criminal act, they are sometimes seized
 7 VIII |         the consequences of his act by self-destruction.~Hence,
 8 X    |        capable of any desperate act.”~“Ah!” exclaimed the clerk,
 9 X    |      other, which they begin to act as soon as they cross the
10 X    |        This explains your first act of despair; but later on,
11 XIII |         the finish of the final act—a finish that only too often
12 XV   |     knew but too well that this act of folly had doubled the
13 XV   |   indication of the portrait—an act which clearly revealed how
14 XVIII|         the culprit in the very act.”~These objections were
15 XVIII|      are waiting your orders to act. Hope! Courage!”~
16 XIX  |       little. One may, perhaps, act as the clown of a traveling
17 XIX  |         prison. It’s a cowardly act and one may get into trouble
18 XXIII|         Mariette, caught in the act, hastened away, pursued