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   1 III|             sublimate, the second 2 1/4 ozs. of Roman vitriol, and
   2 II |            vacant, which would cost 100,000 crowns; and although Sainte-Croix
   3 II |         doctors was useless. On the 12th of April, five days after
   4 IV |       confessions.~ ~SECOND CASE~In 1579 an innkeeper at Toulouse
   5 I  |          had married the marquis in 1651-that is, nine years before.
   6 I  |            position. About the year 1660, Sainte-Croix, while in
   7 III|             going or coming back in 1666.~ ~Asked if she had not
   8 II |             the rest of him. On the 17th of June 1670 he died: the
   9 VII|         said she was a saint."~ ~In 1814, M. d'Offemont, father of
  10 II |           earlier, 100 pistoles and 200 white crowns, which should
  11 I  |        which she added her dowry of 200,000 livres, exclusive of her
  12 III|           interrogated on the 2lst, 22nd, and 24th of April. On the
  13 II |        hurried to the commissary as 2496 soon as she heard of the
  14 II |                 Given at Paris, the 25th of May after noon, 1672.
  15 III|           and 24th of April. On the 26th of July, Penautier was discharged;
  16 III|         carried out. In Parliament, 27th March 1673." In virtue of
  17 III|            were interrogated on the 2lst, 22nd, and 24th of April.
  18 II |       together with the transfer of 300 livres owed to him by the
  19 II |           seals had been set on the 31st of July 1672, and they were
  20 II |          Penautier then offered him 40,000 crowns to go halves, but
  21 VI |             estate to the king, and 400 livres to the Church for
  22 VI |             persons; and the sum of 4000 livres shall be paid out
  23 III|        appeal, a judgment, on March 4th, 1673, declared that Jean
  24 II |             office was worth nearly 60,000 livres. Penautier knew that
  25 II |          they were taken off on the 8th of August following. Just
  26 I  |             s house, and henceforth abandoning all discretion, appeared
  27 VI |                No, no," she replied abruptly and feverishly, "no, I will
  28 IV |             to continue a system of absolute denial in face of proofs
  29 V  |           Besides, communion is not absolutely necessary to salvation,
  30 IV |        priest who reveals them, and absolve those whom he accuses, because
  31 V  |             such evil. She had very abundant chestnut hair, a rounded,
  32 I  |             Have you the courage to accept?" "First of all," asked
  33 V  |            soup and unworthy of his acceptance. She herself took some soup
  34 II |       happened one of those strange accidents which seem to be not the
  35 I  |             the pupil was almost as accomplished as his master.~ ~Sainte-Croix
  36 II |             story but what might be accounted for by indigestion; so he
  37 I  |             enormities were so well accredited that there was no scruple
  38 III|     lieutenant's widow, to lodge an accusation against him, and in consequence
  39 III|            the trial. Thus, all the accusations had, one by one, fallen
  40 VI |             marquise knew enough to accuse him, and would accordingly
  41 IV |           and absolve those whom he accuses, because the avowal made
  42 IV |             in fact, declared that, accustomed as he was to dealing with
  43 III|          was found nothing acrid or acid to the tongue, scarcely
  44 III|          creditors; that she had an acknowledgment from Sainte-Croix, but had
  45 I  |             to make them more fully acquainted with the man who is to take
  46 I  |             of Sainte-Croix's newly acquired knowledge, and M. d'Aubray
  47    | across
  48 V  |          account to God of all your actions, and even your idle words,
  49 III|           animal remain healthy and active; even while it is spreading
  50 I  |           born at Montauban, and in actual rank and position he was
  51 IV |  Confesseurs', was given by Roderic Acugno. A Catalonian, native of
  52 II |           the stomach were now more acute; a strange fire seemed to
  53 VI |        reply as to the doctor, only adding, "If you do not believe
  54 IV |             learn what she felt. In addition to what the president had
  55 III|           not worth while to suffer additional pains.]~ ~so, in virtue
  56 IV |           accuser into a room which adjoined the court, and sent for
  57 II |          father, sleeping in a room adjoining his, eating with him, caring
  58 IV |             mind. The confessor was adjudged a very severe penance, which
  59 VII|           already got down, and was adjusting the ladder. In this terrible
  60 III|             given him the poison to administer to her brothers; that he
  61 V  |               and though I will not admit that I am guilty, I promise,
  62 III|           for his sake. But she had adopted a new lover, Theria by name.
  63 VI |           and the marquise knelt in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
  64 VI |        doctor, rising, "we will now adore the divine blood of the
  65 IV |           man's father. He, who had adored his son, went to the vizier,
  66 IV |           clever way, owning to the adulterous connection of the marquise
  67 III|         Asked why her relations had advised her thus, she replied that
  68 IV |             of the effect which the advocate intended to produce by these
  69 II |      Belleguise to treat about this affair with Penautier. There was
  70 V  |             sign of learning and no affectation, always, mistress of herself,
  71 III|          part of it was found to be affected by the poison. A second
  72 VI |           the doctor, "it in no way affects your soul's salvation whether
  73 VI |            had any accomplices, and affirming that she knew nothing of
  74 II |    commissary Picard was ordered to affix the seals, and all the widow
  75 II |           you. If you can come this afternoon, I shall be either at the
  76 IV |    inflexible spirit, except by the agency of a minister of religion;
  77 I  |          young man, controlling his agitation by a~visible effort.~ ~"
  78 VII|         your own eyes; and a minute ago I saw a fire very different
  79 II |          never before have acted so agreeably both for me and for yourself.
  80 II |             particular circumstance aided and almost confirmed her
  81 I  |             middle of the forest of Aigue, three or four miles from
  82 I  |         intimidated by these lordly airs, but signing to his men
  83 V  |        account we give here, "I was alarmed by this calm behaviour.
  84 II |       however, was not only sad but alarming. Death knows no hatred:
  85 II |           of the gloves of Jeanne d'Albret; the secret was lost, but
  86 I  |        pride: he was the dark, pale alchemist of death: others might seek
  87 II |           faith in the mysteries of alchemy declared that Sainte-Croix
  88 IV |             had to be hidden in the alcove by the bed. Lachaussee brought
  89 II |           the following statement: "Alexandre Delamarre, lawyer acting
  90 I  |           coach; also, since I have alighted, I desire you to give your
  91 V  |          for confessor and penitent alike. After mass, as he returned,
  92 VII|             the approach of all the allied troops, contrived in one
  93 V  |          all: God, in His goodness, allows it to suffice."~ ~"But,"
  94 VI |             her head; then, with no alteration in her voice, she said, "
  95 V  |             anything that should be altered, tell me."~ ~This was the
  96 IV |            strength of the marquise amazed him. The day before he summoned
  97 I  |         Florentine traitor with his amiable smile and his deadly poison.
  98 III|            arranged beforehand, the amorous meeting was disturbed two
  99 III|               The difference in the amount shows that Sainte-Croix
 100 VII|             last -- for finding and analysing the substances which composed
 101 I  |              Sainte-Croix shuddered anew, passing from a supernatural
 102 I  |           Maybe, if he had met some angelic soul at this point, he would
 103 V  |  Furthermore, sir, far from feeling angry with the president for the
 104 III|         detect it; all parts of the animal remain healthy and active;
 105 VI |             straining at wrists and ankles, penetrated the flesh and
 106 IV |         lieutenant's secretary, was announced, and Lachaussee had to be
 107 IV |            in a public place; -- in anticipation, said he, of burning in
 108 III|               Next, a piece of pure antimony weighing three ounces.~ ~"
 109 III|     something of Messalina as well: antiquity could go no further. M.
 110 II |      disappeared, saying nothing to anybody, and not even asking for
 111 II |             any person in the world apart from herself: in case of
 112 III|         this poison, rules useless, aphorisms ridiculous. The surest experiments
 113 VII|        firmly recited the following apology. ~ ~ ~"I confess that, wickedly
 114 II |             died all of a sudden of apoplexy. The attack was known to
 115 VI |             they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise
 116 II |        although Sainte-Croix had no apparent means, it was rumoured that
 117 IV |            deplorable position was, appearing now for the last time before
 118 V  |       question without any personal application. No, madame, in this life
 119 III|          preparatory question to be applied. Mme. Mangot appealed from
 120 IV |           betray confessions. Then, applying this to the guilty priest,
 121 II |         receipts from his master of apprenticeship, 100 livres each: these
 122 V  |         keep me company, and if you approve, we will do the same to-day.
 123 V  |       charge of them, and as he had approved of them, I could not venture
 124 I  |       clever master found his pupil apt. Sainte-Croix, a strange
 125 VI |             gave the body a greater arch, and as this was done without
 126 I  |           he felt no doubt that the arch-enemy of the human race, who is
 127 IV |         Saint-Thomas of Villeneuve, Archbishop of Valencia, heard of his
 128 VII|             of Sainte-Genevieve des Ardents. But, slowly as it moved,
 129 III|            heard concerning matters arising from the present inquiry,
 130 IV |          deep pity for the wretched Armenians, and indignation against
 131 I  |          Sainte-Croix, while in the army, had made the acquaintance
 132    | around
 133 II |            in the same family might arouse suspicion. Experiments were
 134 II |            suspicions that had been aroused at the moment in his mind.
 135 II |          the help of their money to arrange matters that would appear
 136 IV |             would be absent; but by arrangement the husband arrived, and
 137 II |          the same evening to Liege, arriving the next morning, and retired
 138 VI |      contained nothing but rarefied arsenic; that as to an antidote,
 139 I  |            poisoner: he was a great artist in poisons, comparable with
 140 IV |           father and sons: these he ascribed entirely to the vengeance
 141 II |              for the commissary was asleep. She saw that it was idle
 142 VII|            of temptation that might assail you." ~ ~ ~"Sir," she said, "
 143 III|             four or five determined assailants, and she counted on him
 144 IV |         wise she would have had him assassinated. She often said that she
 145 III|          more expensive than simple assassination. Thus in his death did Sainte-Croix
 146 I  |            was a considerable crowd assembled on the Pont-Neuf where it
 147 II |             that no untruth is here asserted. If anyone should contravene
 148 II |        Objection of Lachaussee, who asserts that for seven years he
 149 I  |            beg of you to order your assistants to allow this carriage to
 150 VII|       occasions, and God has always assisted me; but I have been anxious
 151 IV |          and began to speak on that assumption; but the doctor told her
 152 VI |             three hours." ~ ~ ~This assurance calmed the marquise somewhat,
 153 V  |           my soul to God, I wish to assure you of my affection for
 154 V  |         prayed for her; and when he assured her of this, she said, "
 155 IV |             in hell, where he would assuredly receive the punishment of
 156 II |            blind, nothing more, and astonishment was felt at this ruthless
 157 VI |         before her judges as should atone for her scandalous effrontery.
 158 VI |   Brinvilliers to make the rightful atonement before the great gate of
 159 V  |      purgatory; my crime is far too atrocious to be pardoned on any other
 160 V  |           for any ignominy that may attach to you herefrom; but consider
 161 I  |            man the lovers were more attached than ever. They had learned
 162 VII|        grace, if he has it, and may attain to it if he has it not."~ ~
 163 V  |         conditions; and when I have attained to a love of God far greater
 164 VI |      poisoned her two brothers, and attempt the life of her sister,
 165 VII|         father and my brothers, and attempted to poison my sister, to
 166 VI |             the Parliament, also of attempting the life of Therese d'Aubray,
 167 IV |             and one woman always in attendance on her. They were in a large
 168 I  |         answer my questions." "I am attending," said the young man, controlling
 169 II |           her father, so especially attentive, as she was during this
 170 V  |            and began to examine her attentively as they conversed together. "
 171 II |            read. The deputy for the attorney general on being consulted
 172 II |           of the first objects that attracted the attention of the officers
 173 I  |             crowd and the centre of attraction was a closely shut, carriage.
 174 I  |            said Sainte-Croix, still attributing what he heard to a supernatural
 175 III|       attractive by his wit and his audacity, so much so that more easily
 176 IV |           of the legal action: 'Non auditur perire volens'. He cited
 177 II |             taken off on the 8th of August following. Just as they
 178 I  |           had drawn the eyes of the authorities upon himself; but neither
 179 I  |            the year 1665, on a fine autumn evening, there was a considerable
 180 I  |           him, perhaps, or at least avenge his fate should he be incarcerated
 181 II |            he felt an unconquerable aversion for every kind of food,
 182 I  |            have had her reasons for avoiding recognition.~ ~"Sir," said
 183 V  |        firmness and a resolution to await and to endure death if so
 184 VI |            who rose from prayer and awaked His disciples that He might
 185 V  |            me, then, how can a soul awaking in purgatory at the moment
 186 V  |             fain know, that at this awful moment I may feel no doubt,
 187 VI |      instant when the executioner's axe strikes you; unless, indeed,
 188 VII|            Liege, and treated me so badly all along the road. When
 189 IV |          confessor, tempted by this bait, secretly gave word that
 190 III|       counted on him to strike this bald stroke. But, uneasy when
 191 I  |         into that society which had banished him, fortified by a fatal
 192 I  |    appearance, a merry comrade at a banquet, and an excellent captain:
 193 V  |            is a martyrdom and a new baptism."~ ~"Alas, my God," replied
 194 VI |             you from all that might bar the way to heaven."~ ~The
 195 VII|         view of their curiosity and barbarity, though that is real enough,
 196 VII|              is not this a strange, barbarous curiosity?"~ ~"Madame,"
 197 IV |             A Catalonian, native of Barcelona, who was condemned to death
 198 I  |            which, shining through a barred window some eight or ten
 199 VII|  unsuspected cavity. With picks and bars they broke the wall open,
 200 VII|            hair bristling, his brow bathed in sweat; for, not seeing
 201 I  |        Sainte-Croix wheresoever the bearer might chance to encounter
 202 II |          carriages he kept ordinary bearers for excursions at night.
 203 IV |          who, as we know, was a nun bearing the name of Sister Marie
 204 II |        country place, Villequoy, in Beauce, to spend the Easter vacation.
 205    | becoming
 206 IV |            a pair of pistols, it so befell that they were fortunate
 207 III|             wheel. As to Exili, the beginner of it all, he had disappeared
 208 II |           civil lieutenant rang his bell, and Lachaussee, who served
 209 II |            the contents concern and belong to her alone, and are of
 210 IV |        every day, and that in a box belonging to that lady she had seen
 211 VI |             that all I have upon me belongs to you, and I may not give
 212    | below
 213 II |        moment when Sainte-Croix was bending over his furnace, watching
 214 III|          his death did Sainte-Croix bequeath the poisons to his mistress
 215 II |             father had on his death bequeathed the care and supervision
 216 II |     Sainte-Croix was in the rue des Bernardins, and the place near at hand
 217 IV |            you have been willing to bestow upon me." ~ ~ ~With these
 218 VII|         calm, and I will do all you bid me."~ ~The executioner hereupon
 219 VII|             a crucifix in her hand, bidding her fix her gaze upon it.
 220 IV |             her box, and wanted her bill for two or three thousand
 221 I  |          disgusted with his obscure birth, he preferred a splendid
 222 II |   Hotel-Dieu. This time she brought biscuits and cakes for the convalescent
 223 III|            to drink, broke a little bit off with her teeth; but
 224 IV |          she could to swallow pins, bits of glass, and earth; that
 225 VII|          her; but she, in a tone of bitter lamentation, gazing at the
 226 VII|            she ceased to speak. The blade had sped so quickly that
 227 II |             burned within seemed to blaze forth at his eyes, the only
 228 IV |             even to see another man bled without feeling ill, accepted
 229 VII|           see the neck cut open and bleeding. Immediately, in fulfilment
 230 VII|         caused by the immense crowd blocking the court, only pushed aside
 231 III|          from Penautier looked like blood-money. As one of these two was
 232 I  |            the first victim. At one blow she would free herself from
 233 IV |          things in it; but the lady blushed, and changed the subject.
 234 II |             the presence of certain bodily humours sometimes produces
 235 I  |       husband. But in trying such a bold stroke one must be very
 236 VII|             looking for the charred bones of Madame de Brinvilliers,
 237 V  |           of Montresor or any other book that describes their execution."~ ~"
 238 III|         suffered the torture of the boot. This was having each leg
 239 II |     ruthless destruction of all who bore one name. Still nobody suspected
 240 I  |   comparable with the Medici or the Borgias. For him murder was a fine
 241 I  |            certainty is that he was born at Montauban, and in actual
 242 IV |             hours more, and she had borne it all, showing as much
 243 III|            her relatives, forced to borrow every penny. Asked as to
 244 IV |            husband and wife, always borrowing considerable sums, and threatening
 245 VII|           rest; receive it into Thy bosom; that it may dwell once
 246 VII|        heart." He then pulled out a bottle from under his cloak, and
 247 IV |        there showed her four little bottles, saying, "See what Glazer
 248 VI |          from whom the marquise had bought a carriage before she left
 249 IV |             last he went beyond all bounds, and threatened to kill
 250 V  |     salvation of his soul by Father Bourdaloue, for she said nothing about
 251 V  |           therefore -- and one must bow down before the judgment
 252 I  |             by these words from the bowels of the earth, a man slowly
 253 IV |        easily be put an end to in a bowl of soup.~ ~The girl Edme
 254 I  |             where Sainte-Croix lay. Brave as he was, this apparition
 255 II |           drink it down, and with a brazen countenance she gave no
 256 IV |            When he had admitted the breach of faith, the judges were
 257 II |         them was sight, speech, and breath. At the end of two months
 258 IV |          girl Edme Huet, a woman of Brescia, deposed that Sainte-Croix
 259 I  |           of his steward, Martin de Breuille, a room situated in the
 260 V  |         when the father took up his breviary and I my rosary with the
 261 III|           accord. There he tried to bribe the archers, offering much
 262 V  |           As she was giving a first brief sketch of her life to her
 263 IV |          against the tutor of M. de Brinvillier's children. Marie de Villeray
 264 VII|         flash. He stopped, his hair bristling, his brow bathed in sweat;
 265 II |            were ruined. D'Alibert's brother-in-law, who was Sieur de la Magdelaine,
 266 VII|             his hair bristling, his brow bathed in sweat; for, not
 267 II |            so incomprehensible, was bruited about Paris, and people
 268 VI |    screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water ~ ~ ~[Note: The
 269 III|            quince flower and quince buds dried.~ ~"Item, a pack sealed
 270 V  |          kind, madame, you must not build upon them, please: they
 271 III|             touches is vitiated; it burns and scorches all the inner
 272 VII|           down, as though she would bury her feet in the earth, she
 273 II |            the necessary, steps for buying the place over his head:
 274 V  |            asking him to excuse the cabbage in it, which made it a common
 275 II |          sometimes happened that a 'cacochyme' produced the same effect.
 276 II |            she brought biscuits and cakes for the convalescent patients,
 277 III|         vitriol, and the third some calcined prepared vitriol. In the
 278 VI |         hours." ~ ~ ~This assurance calmed the marquise somewhat, and
 279 VII|       marquise, for a time a little calmer, was again convulsed. From
 280 IV |       Dominicus Soto, a very famous canonist and theologian, confessor
 281 III|           square phial, one pint in capacity, full of a clear liquid,
 282 VII|          the people made around the car, a murmur mingled with curses. ~ ~ ~
 283 I  |    entangled that the marquise, who cared for him no longer, and desired
 284 V  |         herself well and in few but careful words; easily finding a
 285 II |     adjoining his, eating with him, caring for his comfort in every
 286 II |         besides his coach and other carriages he kept ordinary bearers
 287 VII|             he would only have been carrying out his orders. Jesus Christ,
 288 II |           master, stooped under the cart and crawled to the other
 289 VII|          was one of the smallest of carts, still splashed with mud
 290 VI |             this moment in a gilded casket. Obsequies, madame, are
 291 IV |          given by Roderic Acugno. A Catalonian, native of Barcelona, who
 292 V  |            you could not die a good Catholic. Some doctors, it is true,
 293 II |          have come about by natural causes, and he was buried without
 294 I  |         officer in the uniform of a cavalry captain jumped down, shutting
 295 VII|        presence of some unsuspected cavity. With picks and bars they
 296 I  |          inconvenience of his rigid censorship, and by inheriting his goods
 297 V  |             not wish me to stand on ceremony with you; these good people
 298 I  |           We must now see by what a chain of circumstances he had
 299 VI |             There she sat down in a chair, and the doctor on a seat
 300 II |            it again, at least for a change of suffering. At the end
 301 IV |            into her hands, but soon changing from her sprightly mood,
 302 VI |            was in his surplice, and chanted a 'Veni Creator, Salve Regina,
 303 VI |          between the doctor and the chaplain. The latter was in his surplice,
 304 IV |        Conciergerie had its own two chaplains, and added that he was too
 305 VI |            to allow me to give this chaplet to the doctor before I die:
 306 III|             but soon other terrible charges were added, which still
 307 V  |          and she seemed to be quite charmed by, his condescension. "
 308 III|      Parisian manner. Unhappily the charming abbe was to leave Liege
 309 I  |  proportioned; her rounded face was charmingly pretty; her features, so
 310 VII|         people were looking for the charred bones of Madame de Brinvilliers,
 311 III|           on which was written: 'To check the flow of blood.' Moreau
 312 III|        complained of these tiresome checks; besides, the marquise and
 313 I  |         thirty, a fine young man of cheerful and lively appearance, a
 314 VII|    laboratory, containing furnaces, chemical instruments, phials hermetically
 315 III|          Sainte-Croix was a learned chemist, and suggested the idea
 316 V  |         evil. She had very abundant chestnut hair, a rounded, well-shaped
 317 I  |      visible effort.~ ~"Are you the Chevalier Gaudin de Sainte-Croix?"~ ~"
 318 II |            and d'Alibert's wife and child were ruined. D'Alibert's
 319 VII|         Roquelaure, and the Abbe de Chimay. At the sight the marquise
 320 VII|             lifting her face by the chin, ordered her to hold her
 321 VII|            I have given you." Tears choked the doctor's speech, and
 322 VII|       madame," said the doctor in a choking voice; "yes, yes, be calm,
 323 V  |            out of a difficulty, and choosing her line of conduct in the
 324 VII|          stroke like the sound of a chopper chopping meat upon a block:
 325 VII|         like the sound of a chopper chopping meat upon a block: at that
 326 I  |             disgrace, and therefore chose to pass for what he was
 327 V  |          and I bear her name. I was christened Marie-Madeleine. But near
 328 V  |          marquise, "I believe M. de Cinq-Mars and M. de Thou communicated
 329 I  |             slowly stepped into the circle of blue light that fell
 330 II |       George's flight. A particular circumstance aided and almost confirmed
 331 IV |          auditur perire volens'. He cited three instances, and as
 332 II |          these moneys and papers he claims."~ ~To Lachaussee the reply
 333 III|          One of the archers, called Claude, Rolla, perceiving her intention,
 334 VI |        praying that you may be thus cleansed from all soil and sin that
 335 V  |     penetrating, seeing things very clearly in her mind, and expressing
 336 III|      delicate. Desgrais, one of the cleverest of the officials, offered
 337 II |           in the box claimed by his client there is found a promise
 338 III|          hide herself in one of the cloister retreats whose secret is
 339 VII|            the shirt over her other clothes.~ ~He then approached, and
 340 IV |                Part IV~The sergeant Cluet deposed: that, observing
 341 III|      nothing was found but a little coagulated blood in the ventricle of
 342 II |    secretary put a few drops into a coffee-spoon, lifting it to his nose
 343 VII|             of powders of different colours. Unluckily, the people who
 344 IV |           to defend her cause.~ ~He combated one charge after another,
 345 III|         mouth. After this, Desgrais commanded that she should be doubly
 346 I  |          paid no attention to their commands, but only endeavoured to
 347 VII|             declaration, the twelve commissaries are here at hand, ready
 348 II |       nothing, and Sainte-Croix was commonly said to have found the philosopher'
 349 V  |           to salvation, and one may communicate spiritually in reading the
 350 V  |            Cinq-Mars and M. de Thou communicated before their death."~ ~"
 351 I  |            being, "when one makes a compact of this kind, one prefers
 352 V  |             dine with me to keep me company, and if you approve, we
 353 I  |            great artist in poisons, comparable with the Medici or the Borgias.
 354 III|         poisons; that she wanted to compel him to go away, offering
 355 IV |             the law of the same God compelled them to confide it to the
 356 V  |         passes against me, far from complaining of the prosecutor who has
 357 III|        Liege without presenting his compliments to the lovely and unfortunate
 358 VI |            time before nightfall to compose yourself and think what
 359 III|        marquise and he too would be compromised: he owed concealment to
 360 I  |          lively appearance, a merry comrade at a banquet, and an excellent
 361 VII|           you have yet to suffer by concealing what you know, if perchance
 362 III|             be compromised: he owed concealment to his cloth: He begged
 363 II |        seeing that all the contents concern and belong to her alone,
 364 IV |             town, it was a foregone conclusion. When he said so, at first
 365 VI |        court has condemned and does condemn the said d'Aubray de Brinvilliers
 366 V  |            be quite charmed by, his condescension. "To-morrow is a fast day,"
 367 I  |            encountered a demon, who conducted him to Satan. Exili was
 368 IV |         reported in the 'Traite des Confesseurs', was given by Roderic Acugno.
 369 IV |             for three hours without confessing anything, or seeming in
 370 IV |           man declare that he hated confessors, because he had been condemned
 371 IV |          same God compelled them to confide it to the ear of one of
 372 IV |    affectionate terms, to place her confidence in the good priest, and
 373 II |       circumstance aided and almost confirmed her doubts. An abbe who
 374 VI |       crimes; and all her goods are confiscated to the proper persons; and
 375 V  |         still on her knees, began a Confiteor and made her whole confession.
 376 II |           see with her own eyes the conflict between death and life in
 377 I  |            perhaps endowed with the conjugal philosophy which alone pleased
 378 III|   impatiently waiting him; but by a conjunction of circumstances that Desgrais
 379 IV |         best lawyers of the period, consented to defend her cause.~ ~He
 380 IV |         religion was at stake, with consequences infinitely more important.
 381 VI |        think they will show so much consideration for a poor wretch condemned
 382 IV |             ask for and receive the consolations brought her by the man of
 383 V  |           heard of the death of the constable of Saint-Paul without his
 384 IV |           that which is destined to constitute the confession should be
 385 V  |           give them a good example; consult Madame Marillac and Madame
 386 II |            ill. From the very first consultation in the lieutenant's case
 387 V  |            flames that burn her and consume not will some day cease?
 388 II |           tennis, and knew that the contact had caused his death; and
 389 I  |          officer, "but this warrant contains no other name than mine,
 390 III|        mistress and his friend; not content with his own crimes in the
 391 IV |     poisoned.~ ~It was difficult to continue a system of absolute denial
 392 V  |             mind she showed it by a contortion that frightened one at first,
 393 VII|            and too public; her face contracted, her eyebrows knit, flames
 394 II |          asserted. If anyone should contravene my wishes that are just
 395 II |           of Sainte-Croix, and by a contrivance of the marquise was installed
 396 III|             marquise might possibly contrive to escape. So Desgrais paid
 397 VII|         When I saw him, I could not control myself, as you noticed." "
 398 I  |     attending," said the young man, controlling his agitation by a~visible
 399 II |          biscuits and cakes for the convalescent patients, her gifts being,
 400 V  |             her attentively as they conversed together. "She was," he
 401 VII|            matching the disgraceful conveyance.~ ~The executioner bade
 402 V  |           be sufficiently strong to convict me. But it has happened
 403 V  |            has given me grace to be convinced by what you say, and I believe
 404 VII|            little calmer, was again convulsed. From her eyes, fixed constantly
 405 VII|            moment, and after a last convulsive shudder she was again calm
 406 VII|         court. Then her face worked convulsively, and crouching down, as
 407 VI |           her own, looking him over coolly from head to foot without
 408 IV |          themselves interesting, we copy them verbatim from his notes.~ ~ ~
 409 VI |     executioner then tied tight the cords round her hands that he
 410 II |             subjects; as before, a 'corpus vili' was taken. The marquise
 411 III|          10,000 francs, their dates corresponding to the time of the deaths
 412 I  |            after traversing various corridors, cold and damp, where the
 413 III|           containing two drachms of corrosive sublimate powdered.~ ~"Next,
 414 II |          liver were all in the same corrupt state as his brother's,
 415 II |           to be vacant, which would cost 100,000 crowns; and although
 416 VI |       poisoned persons; and all the costs shall be paid, including
 417 V  |          say or do must suffer. You count on the execution for tomorrow;
 418 III|      determined assailants, and she counted on him to strike this bald
 419 II |             down, and with a brazen countenance she gave no outward sign
 420 VII|             came in, among them the Countess of Soissons, Madame du Refuge,
 421 V  |            said, "a woman naturally courageous and fearless; naturally
 422 V  |           and I have been wrong: of course you must rest to-night.
 423 I  |             of madness even about a courtesan, had she once taken his
 424 III|           he was as flattering as a courtier, as enterprising as a musketeer.
 425 VII|            legs quite numb from the cramped position he had been in
 426 VI |             man gave two turns to a crank, which pushed the feet,
 427 II |          stooped under the cart and crawled to the other side, thus
 428 I  |             has reserved the act of creation for Himself, but has suffered
 429 V  |          one so wretched as I am, a creature so unworthy of the favours
 430 IV |            first few times the poor creatures gave in to his exactions;
 431 III|             known, by reason of her creditors; that she had an acknowledgment
 432 VI |        answers of the sufferer. Her cries seemed not even to be heard. "
 433 IV |           as he was to dealing with criminals, the strength of the marquise
 434 I  |             had reached the supreme crisis of his life, when the powers
 435 IV |             with her one day at the cross Saint-Honore, there showed
 436 V  |         whenever an unhappy thought crossed her mind she showed it by
 437 VII|            body fell forward on the crossway block, supported so that
 438 VII|       escape observation. There she crouched like a wild beast, in the
 439 VII|            worked convulsively, and crouching down, as though she would
 440 VII|          The archers drove back the crowding people, and the tumbril
 441 II |           thus at the risk of being crushed escaping from the eyes of
 442 III|             would probably save the culprit if he had the strength to
 443 II |           nobody suspected the true culprits, search was fruitless, inquiries
 444 V  |            that she was to have two cups before midnight. When dinner
 445 III|          which was written: 'Sundry curious secrets.'~ ~"Item, another
 446 VII|          car, a murmur mingled with curses. ~ ~ ~When they reached
 447 IV |            the room a bed with grey curtains for the lady, and a folding-bed
 448 IV |           and a folding-bed for the custodian. It is said to have been
 449 VII|             down her hair and began cutting it at the back and at the
 450 IV |            he saw Lachaussee paying daily visits to Sainte-Croix and
 451 IV |        religion, on pain of eternal damnation. The vizier, satisfied with
 452 I  |         various corridors, cold and damp, where the daylight might
 453 V  |          know for certain whether I dare hope or must despair."~
 454 V  |            numerous that the Church dares not pardon them, and if
 455 I  |            life, when the powers of darkness or of light were to prevail.
 456 VI |      brothers, and sister, from the date of the several crimes; and
 457 III|            for 10,000 francs, their dates corresponding to the time
 458 II |           napkin given to the young dauphin, elder brother of Charles
 459 I  |        makes a turn down to the rue Dauphine. The object of this crowd
 460 II |            work. Suspicion began to dawn: the lieutenant's body was
 461 I  |            cold and damp, where the daylight might sometimes enter but
 462 II |           knows no hatred: death is deaf and blind, nothing more,
 463 V  |         know there has been a great deal of talk, and I am in every
 464 IV |             accustomed as he was to dealing with criminals, the strength
 465 III|          since then they had had no dealings with him.~ ~The marquise
 466 III|            and the execution of the death-sentence: "Lachaussee, released from
 467 I  |           as well as any plan for a debauch; in love he was most susceptible,
 468 V  |           know that he is deeply in debt, and could not appear in
 469 II |          scarcely enough to pay her debts; while the rebukes were
 470 II |             them by a slows strange decay. She asked questions of
 471 II |           was in the service of the deceased; that he had given into
 472 II |          side. It was impossible to deceive the public as to the circumstances
 473 III|     recognise it, so subtle that it deceives the scientific, so elusive
 474 V  |          sacrament, and I should be deceiving you if I let you hope for
 475 V  |    to-morrow will be your great and decisive day, and we shall both need
 476 III|          March 1673, containing the declarations and confessions of Jean
 477 II | Brinvilliers, has come forward, and declares that if in the box claimed
 478 II |            bed made up in his room, declaring that no one else must sit
 479 III|        inquiry, and orders that the decree of arrest against Lapierre
 480 III|           summons against Penautier decreed by the criminal lieutenant
 481 III|       Brinvilliers was condemned in default of appearance to have her
 482 IV |            the period, consented to defend her cause.~ ~He combated
 483 IV |    explaining that the necessity of defending life and honour had driven
 484 II |            was unknown to them, and defied all the resources of their
 485 IV |         madame, to give you certain definite rules. I do not yet know
 486 III|            in all the ways, and can defy every experiment. This poison
 487 V  |          trouble is that He may not deign to grant all His goodness
 488 II |     following statement: "Alexandre Delamarre, lawyer acting for the Marquise
 489 III|           second visit was not long delayed: Desgrais presented himself
 490 III|      mission was difficult and very delicate. Desgrais, one of the cleverest
 491 II |           Penautier which should be delivered.'"~
 492 VI |            more, interrupted by the demands of the registrar and the
 493 I  |            to God; he encountered a demon, who conducted him to Satan.
 494 I  |            that they were a pair of demons. Our readers now understand
 495 III|            the Chatelet. Lachaussee denied his guilt obstinately. The
 496 VII|      scaffold, but the crowd was so dense that the assistant could
 497 IV |         asked for justice. But this denunciation had by no means the desired
 498 IV |            it all, and he could not deny it, and so he had been condemned.
 499 VI |             be burnt. That does not depend on ourselves; but as soon
 500 V  |            humbly, for my salvation depends upon it."~ ~ ~The doctor