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 501 IV |            and showing her what her deplorable position was, appearing
 502 III|        leaving behind only innocent deposits; in animals it is so skilfully
 503 VI |  accomplices. She is declared to be deprived of all successions from
 504 II |           ought not to be read. The deputy for the attorney general
 505 VII|         more there, whence it first descended; from Thee it came, to Thee
 506 V  |    Montresor or any other book that describes their execution."~ ~"But
 507 IV |            that there was a similar design against the tutor of M.
 508 IV |             obstacle to her lover's desires. At last he went beyond
 509 VI |    perceived him, "I have long been desiring to see you again, that you
 510 III|        result from her letters, she despatched a third missive to Theria.
 511 I  |          therefore supposes that in destroying life he is God's equal.
 512 VII|           had been overlooked, they detected a hollow sound that indicated
 513 III|            overcome by four or five determined assailants, and she counted
 514 V  |             of all. If you heartily detest your crime and love God
 515 V  |        never ceased in her peculiar devotion. As she could not go with
 516 VII|            gazing at the crowd, who devoured her with all their eyes,
 517 V  |          the question. The holy and devout priest said his mass, praying
 518 I  |            victim so slowly that he dies after long suffering; others
 519 V  |              and your fate will not differ from the fate of other condemned
 520 I  |             scrupulosity of a legal dignitary. He was scandalised at his
 521 II |           as a fact the fortune was diminished by reason of her elder brothers,
 522 V  |            these good people always dine with me to keep me company,
 523 V  |             skin, good nose, and no disagreeable feature. Still, there was
 524 II |              and knew all about the disappearance of George, met him some
 525 IV |     confessor are either unknown or disapproved, no examination would be
 526 III|         26th of July, Penautier was discharged; fuller information was
 527 II |             conscience therewith in discharging my own in this world and
 528 I  |      gaining a devoted and powerful disciple, who once out of prison
 529 VI |          The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various
 530 III|            easily understood that a disclosure of this kind only increased
 531 V  |            time in acting on what I discovered."~ ~As she was giving a
 532 VII|           the people who made these discoveries thought them of too much
 533 III|           guilty feel great need of discovering their crimes either to mankind
 534 III|   extraordinary, with a view to the discovery of his accomplices. At the
 535 I  |           henceforth abandoning all discretion, appeared everywhere in
 536 IV |      conscience, before opening the discussion of your affairs with God,
 537 I  |           with the same haughty and disdainful air that he had shown throughout
 538 II |          supposed it was an unknown disease in the family. They gave
 539 VII|            horse, well matching the disgraceful conveyance.~ ~The executioner
 540 III|            on examination. It is so disguised that one fails to recognise
 541 I  |           of poor people, but that, disgusted with his obscure birth,
 542 IV |            to get rid of people one dislikes, and they can easily be
 543 IV |      protesting that as he had been dismissed for his misdemeanours, his
 544 II |        studying the progress of the disorder; the thread of investigation
 545 III|           it, however, her mind was disordered; she knew not what she had
 546 V  |             midst of her crimes and disorderly life had never ceased in
 547 III|             the fire evaporates and disperses all that is innocent and
 548 VII|            of love, which only some displeasing sight can have provoked.
 549 VI |            I, and then I am at your disposal." She then continued to
 550 VI |            greatest value you might dispose of it as you pleased." ~ ~
 551 II |         scientific inquiry had been disposed of: the doctor saw nothing,
 552 VII|            with her natural haughty disposition, must have been the worst
 553 II |           affairs, but her father's dispositions were not so favourable as
 554 I  |      fortune, which had been almost dissipated by her husband. But in trying
 555 III|             had said or done, being distraught at the time, in a foreign
 556 VI |          waiting. I swear I did not distrust you; if anyone distrusts
 557 VI |             distrust you; if anyone distrusts you, it is not I."~ ~Then
 558 II |            burnt without opening or disturbing anything. And lest anyone
 559 VI |               we will now adore the divine blood of the Sacrament,
 560 III|            Indian fowl, a pigeon, a dog, and some other animals,
 561 IV |             notes.~ ~ ~FIRST CASE~ ~Dominicus Soto, a very famous canonist
 562 VI |            sentence of pardon or of doom; she knows whether she is
 563 IV |            the refusal, to hear the doomed man declare that he hated
 564 II |     councillor's valets had taken a dose of medicine that morning,
 565 II |           for by indigestion; so he dosed him, and went back to Compiegne.
 566 VI |             her sister, whereof she doth repent, asking pardon of
 567 I  |          with long hair, in a black doublet, who approached the foot
 568 III|        commanded that she should be doubly watched.~ ~They stopped
 569 III|             the poison obeys, falls downwards, and takes the lower place. ~ ~ ~"
 570 I  |              to which she added her dowry of 200,000 livres, exclusive
 571 II |          his private physician that Dr. Bachot had asked for the
 572 III|         folded paper containing two drachms of corrosive sublimate powdered.~ ~"
 573 V  |            but oh, how the time has dragged, and how long it has seemed
 574 VII|        under his cloak, and drank a dram; and taking the body under
 575 VII|           from under his cloak, and drank a dram; and taking the body
 576 V  |             To-morrow you can go to Dravet; you will have time, for
 577 VII|       before his eyes made the fine drawing which -- is now in the Louvre,
 578 II |             encountered the talk in drawing-rooms, and began to feel a little
 579 V  |           good hours' sleep without dreams or any sort of uneasiness;
 580 VII|             body under one arm, all dressed as it was, and the head
 581 III|       quince flower and quince buds dried.~ ~"Item, a pack sealed
 582 V  |           his health. He replied by drinking hers, and she seemed to
 583 I  |     execution when Sainte-Croix was driving in the carriage of the marquise,
 584 VII|     scaffold. Then the registrar M. Drouet, came up on horseback, and,
 585 VII|             Notre-Dame. The archers drove back the crowding people,
 586 III|          given her powders or other drugs, nor if Sainte-Croix had
 587 VII|           being observed. As he was drying his eyes, the assistant
 588 II |            said the doctors; was no dubious sign of poisoning; although,
 589 IV |       poisoned, and it was no doubt due to this precaution that
 590 VI |            hurdle and thrown upon a dung-heap, or embalmed with Oriental
 591 I  |           life to plunge him into a dungeon; he cursed his God who had
 592 II |            presence of the surgeons Dupre and Durant, and Gavart,
 593 II |           of the surgeons Dupre and Durant, and Gavart, the apothecary,
 594 II |           similar appearances, they durst not declare that the lieutenant'
 595 VII|       abandon my body, which is but dust, that men may burn it and
 596 VII|         into Thy bosom; that it may dwell once more there, whence
 597 IV |             they buried under their dwelling unknown to all the world.
 598 III|             the very next day. Such eagerness was flattering to the marquise,
 599 II |          into his charge, two years earlier, 100 pistoles and 200 white
 600 II |              at last, on one of the early days of April 1670, the
 601 IV |          matter, and has reached my ears; for, as you may imagine,
 602 III|           as before. "Item, a small earthenware pot containing two or three
 603 III|            kind of dress with equal ease and grace, and was familiar
 604 V  |             husband. She would feel easier when it was written. For
 605 II |             in Beauce, to spend the Easter vacation. Lachaussee was
 606 IV |           fell into the hands of an ecclesiastical judge, who wished to put
 607 IV |            bowl of soup.~ ~The girl Edme Huet, a woman of Brescia,
 608 II |            such cases nothing is so effective or so terrible as the official
 609 I  |          would be impossible to get efficient help before the rapid action
 610 II |             so subtle that the very effluvia might be fatal. He had heard
 611 I  |          his agitation by a~visible effort.~ ~"Are you the Chevalier
 612 VII|          doubt that in spite of his efforts she had heard. It became
 613 I  |      Brinvilliers was then scarcely eight-and-twenty: she had married the marquis
 614 VI |          give you a place among His elect; and since nought that is
 615 IV |      Briancourt every day took some electuary for fear of being poisoned,
 616 III|          are made by the use of the elements or upon animals. In water,
 617 III|         deceives the scientific, so elusive that it escapes the doctor'
 618 VI |         thrown upon a dung-heap, or embalmed with Oriental perfumes and
 619 V  |         line of conduct in the most embarrassing circumstances; light-minded
 620 VI |          proceeding, she first felt embarrassment and confusion. Ten or twelve
 621 I  |        features, so regular that no emotion seemed to alter their beauty,
 622 III|            the idea that he did not employ his art for nothing; everybody
 623 III|    irresistible fire.~ ~"The poison employed by Sainte-Croix has been
 624 II |      vengeance, they decided on the employment of other means. Three months
 625 I  |          the bearer might chance to encounter him. We have seen how it
 626 IV |         father; there is no need to encourage me. I will play my part,
 627 V  |         doctor was about to answer, encouraging her, when the door opened:
 628 I  |            their commands, but only endeavoured to urge his horses to a
 629 II |         snapped in two, and the two ends were now too distant to
 630 VII|         have not lost your power of endurance on the road; do not destroy
 631 VI |         prayer; and I, madame, will engage to deliver the rosary where
 632 I  |       though proof was wanting, his enormities were so well accredited
 633 I  |     fortunes: his affairs became so entangled that the marquise, who cared
 634 III|        flattering as a courtier, as enterprising as a musketeer. In this
 635 II |       lieutenant's case the doctors entertained no hope. The symptoms were
 636 II |           lay a half-sheet of paper entitled 'My Will,' written on one
 637 V  |          grace, in spite of all his entreaties. He was executed in sight
 638 II |           yielded to his daughter's entreaty that she should send for
 639 III|        replied that she intended to entrust this sum to his care, so
 640 III|           and here was the marquise equally imprudent. The confession
 641 I  |       because they are placed in an equivocal position, fancy that everyone
 642 VII|        ordered her to hold her head erect. She obeyed, unresisting,
 643 VI |            Salve Regina, and Tantum ergo'. These prayers over, he
 644 I  |         before them; thus the woman escaped for whose safety the prisoner
 645 II |           the risk of being crushed escaping from the eyes of a man whose
 646 III|      started accordingly for Liege, escorted by several archers, and,
 647 II |           devoted to her father, so especially attentive, as she was during
 648 VI |            shall be paid out of her estate to the king, and 400 livres
 649 V  |             damned burn through all eternity tell me, then, how can a
 650 III|           no less certain: the fire evaporates and disperses all that is
 651 V  |             untoward and unexpected events, an immovable firmness and
 652 V  |           to himself -- that a mind evidently of some grandeur, professing
 653 V  |         must lay hands on all these evil-doers without exception; for if
 654 V  |             and the Church does not exact fasting in~such a case."~ ~"
 655 IV |            creatures gave in to his exactions; but the moment came at
 656 I  |     joyfully accepted. Offemont was exactly the place for a crime of
 657 III|            up for punishment. After examining the letter, which Desgrais
 658 V  |            continued, "in recalling examples of the kind, madame, you
 659 I  |        comrade at a banquet, and an excellent captain: he took his pleasure
 660 V  |            these evil-doers without exception; for if you spared them,
 661 IV |         that Madame de Brinvilliers exclaimed, "Dear me, don't tell my
 662 I  |            dowry of 200,000 livres, exclusive of her expectations in the
 663 II |           kept ordinary bearers for excursions at night. As he was young
 664 V  |           sins -- that He has often exercised this power. Now all my trouble
 665 II |       protection from any poisonous exhalations that might rise up from
 666 IV |           Saint-Jacques. Her letter exhorted the marquise, in the most
 667 VII|          before her the whole time, exhorting her with religious words,
 668 VI |             shirt, and she made her exit from the chapel, supported
 669 I  |            livres, exclusive of her expectations in the future. Her name
 670 III|             that parricide was more expensive than simple assassination.
 671 I  |           ever. They had learned by experience, however, of what they had
 672 VII|     humiliation sent by God for the expiation of your crimes. God, who
 673 V  |         they desire people's death. Explain, I beg, what you mean."~ ~"
 674 V  |           dictate." The letter, she explained, which was difficult to
 675 IV |            s feet. The woman spoke, explaining that the necessity of defending
 676 I  |             so you have no right to expose thus to the public gaze
 677 II |           the two brothers d'Aubray expostulated with her by the medium of
 678 V  |        written. For her husband she expressed so much affection, that
 679 V  |            clearly in her mind, and expressing herself well and in few
 680 VI |           he held in his hands, and extended her own, looking him over
 681 IV |             in the Montgomery tower extending, throughout its whole length.
 682 III|         plain to see: its malignity extends to every part that it reaches,
 683 III|          the council authorised the extradition of the marquise.~ ~This
 684 V  |             very pretty and gentle, extraordinarily white skin, good nose, and
 685 I  |           and continued his foolish extravagances long after they had impaired
 686 II |             Paris. Sainte-Croix was extremely well known, and the, news
 687 VII|            her face contracted, her eyebrows knit, flames darted from
 688 VII|   executioner, who, as we know, sat facing the doctor, she said, "Put
 689 VII|              he threw both upon the faggots, which his assistant lighted.~ ~"
 690 III|            is so disguised that one fails to recognise it, so subtle
 691 V  |        flames of hell. This I would fain know, that at this awful
 692 I  |         feared a stain upon his own fair name: he procured a warrant
 693 III|        accusations had, one by one, fallen upon her, and it was resolved
 694 II |            duodenum to be black and falling to pieces, the liver burnt
 695 II |      perceived that they had made a false step, and at the risk of
 696 VI |           on his person for it, she fancied that he feared she would
 697 I  |             his face as the strange fantastic being step by step approached
 698 VII|           occupation retired to the farther side of the frontier. Then
 699 VI |             the gaoler for a pin to fasten it with. When he was slow
 700 V  |           the Church does not exact fasting in~such a case."~ ~"Sir,"
 701 II |    meanwhile become the heir of his father-in-law, the Sieur Lesecq, whose
 702 VII|           observes, He was a victim fattened on the joys of suffering
 703 III|           like Mephistopheles after Faust's end, and nothing was heard
 704 II |        seemed to have abandoned her favourite: Maitre Penautier had a
 705 V  |         creature so unworthy of the favours already bestowed on her."~ ~
 706 II |              Martin was attacked by fearful sickness, which brought,
 707 V  |            naturally courageous and fearless; naturally gentle and good;
 708 V  |           some grandeur, professing fearlessness in the most untoward and
 709 V  |           nose, and no disagreeable feature. Still, there was nothing
 710 IV |           and added that he was too feeble to undertake such a task,
 711 IV |             he would carry out, she feigned consent, and gave the Turk
 712 II |             to the ground as though felled by a lightning stroke. At
 713 II |             considered such a lucky fellow that it was generally expected
 714 III|           convent in the guise of a fellow-countryman just returned from Rome,
 715 V  |           and two eggs, begging her fellow-guests to excuse her for not serving
 716 I  |          human sound: he cursed his fellow-man who had snatched him from
 717 I  |             by Sainte-Croix for his fellow-prisoner did ,not last long, and
 718 VI |           to return with her former fervour to her prayers. She prayed
 719 II |         councillor was in a violent fever, agitated unceasingly both
 720 VI |      inflamed, her eyes glowing and feverish, all her body involuntarily
 721 VI |            she replied abruptly and feverishly, "no, I will not keep them
 722 V  |     circumstances; light-minded and fickle; unstable, paying no attention
 723 I  |          and on his return from the field the marquis introduced Sainte-Croix
 724 III|          her two brothers;~ ~In the fifth, that she had tried to poison
 725 VI |       insisted on entering, all but fighting with the executioner. The
 726 VI |             a word. The judges then filed out, disclosing as they
 727 II |            could detect nothing but filial tenderness, though the vilest
 728 VI |          pinching his nose with the~finger and thumb.]~ ~prepared for
 729 V  |          rest to-night. Let us just finish this one thing, and read
 730 II |             threw the wine into the fireplace.~ ~As the lieutenant had
 731 V  |     unexpected events, an immovable firmness and a resolution to await
 732 VII|            in her hand, bidding her fix her gaze upon it. This advice
 733 VII|              praying for him; then, fixing her eyes on the crucifix,
 734 VII|            crucifix, there darted a flaming glance, then came a troubled
 735 II |             with reddish spots like flea-bites. In June Penautier obtained
 736 III|          narrative.~ ~Asked why she fled to Liege, she replied that
 737 VI |          and ankles, penetrated the flesh and made the blood run.
 738 II |          like certainty by George's flight. A particular circumstance
 739 III|             experiment. This poison floats in water, it is the superior,
 740 I  |            given, he pointed to the Florentine traitor with his amiable
 741 III|          was written: 'To check the flow of blood.' Moreau said that
 742 III|             said that it was quince flower and quince buds dried.~ ~"
 743 IV |         leave their carriage at the Foire Saint-Germain. Marie de
 744 III|            prepared opium. "Item, a folded paper containing two drachms
 745 IV |        curtains for the lady, and a folding-bed for the custodian. It is
 746 VII|       glancing now and again at the folds of his cloak, where there
 747 I  |         from the governor, bade him follow: after traversing various
 748 II |            continued in his path of folly, and all things went on
 749 II |          aversion for every kind of food, and the vomiting was incessant.
 750 I  |         intimacy, and continued his foolish extravagances long after
 751 IV |         with Sainte-Croix; that the footman told him she was the Marquise
 752 V  |           what you mean."~ ~"Heaven forbid," cried the marquise, "that
 753 IV |       reports in the town, it was a foregone conclusion. When he said
 754 IV |             This worthy magistrate, foreseeing the issue, and feeling that
 755 VI |        whether she is to be plunged forever into hell, or if God sends
 756 II |            for nullification." This formality over, they proceeded to
 757 III|            take place next day, was formally arranged. Desgrais was punctual:
 758 VII|        about that, for I will never forsake you."~ ~"I looked for this
 759 III|     document, began his examination forthwith. We give it verbatim, rejoicing
 760 II |           resources of their art. A fortnight later she returned. Some
 761 IV |            so befell that they were fortunate enough to kill their enemy,
 762 I  |         after they had impaired his fortunes: his affairs became so entangled
 763 V  |          have thought she was quite forty-eight. Though her face as a rule
 764 V  |  Sainte-Madeleine's day I should be forty-six. On her day I came into
 765 VII|          were passing backwards and forwards at Offemont, and after a
 766 V  |             working for thirteen or fourteen hours for the good of your
 767 III|       poisoned her father;~ ~In the fourth, of having poisoned her
 768 III|            was tried upon an Indian fowl, a pigeon, a dog, and some
 769 II |          remove the furnace and the fragments of the glass mask.~ ~The
 770 IV |         letter from Sainte-Croix.~ ~Francois Desgrais, officer, deposed
 771 II |           by his head clerk, Pierre Frater, that he was in bed; the
 772 II |             paper taken from her by fraud, against which, in case
 773 II |            consider how he could be freed from anxiety. There was
 774 II |           purpose. She had now more freedom for her love affairs, but
 775 I  |  destruction. In opposition to this French gallantry, which often involves
 776 I  |          his companion, who accused Frenchmen of showing too much honour
 777 VII|            then came a troubled and frenzied look which terrified the
 778 II |        Picard by a Carmelite called Friar Victorin. The commissary
 779 II |             the world he had formed friendships with various persons, some
 780 VII|  unceasingly of God. Still she grew frightfully pale at the words, "When
 781 VII|             the farther side of the frontier. Then the owners ventured
 782 II |           true culprits, search was fruitless, inquiries led nowhere:
 783 VII|           bleeding. Immediately, in fulfilment of his promise, the doctor
 784 IV |           of the priesthood and the functions of a confessor are either
 785 VII|            a laboratory, containing furnaces, chemical instruments, phials
 786 V  |          fault, and will repair it. Furthermore, sir, far from feeling angry
 787 I  |             seized the occasion for gaining a devoted and powerful disciple,
 788 I  |             to urge his horses to a gallop. The struggle had been going
 789 II |          wipe his hands on during a game of tennis, and knew that
 790 II |         pieces, the liver burnt and gangrened. They said that this state
 791 VI |             that He might leave the garden and go out to meet His enemies.
 792 VI |             cloak and all her other garments, until she was completely
 793 I  |           that a terrible storm was gathering, soon to break. But he preserved
 794 II |      surgeons Dupre and Durant, and Gavart, the apothecary, by M. Bachot,
 795 II |         Sainte-Croix, always in the gay world, encountered the talk
 796 VI |       question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly
 797 VII|         tone of bitter lamentation, gazing at the crowd, who devoured
 798 V  |            induced by his piety and gentleness to make confessions that
 799 III|             times just as they were getting more intimate and least
 800 III|           always, and to make him a gift of 100 pistolets; that he
 801 II |          convalescent patients, her gifts being, as usual, gratefully
 802 VI |           lying at this moment in a gilded casket. Obsequies, madame,
 803 IV |              So the doctor was very glad to find that between Sunday
 804 VI |             rosary where it will be gladly received."~ ~And the marquise,
 805 VII|              stood the executioner, glancing now and again at the folds
 806 VI |             the poison took another glassful, one would have nothing
 807 I  |             from the ground, shed a gleam upon a miserable truckle-bed
 808 I  |        mysterious stranger spoke in gloomy tones. "Young man," said
 809 VI |           forth from its ashes more glorious than a royal corpse lying
 810 V  |             this world and infinite glory in the next! Dictate a new
 811 II |             had informed him of the gloves of Jeanne d'Albret; the
 812 VI |              was inflamed, her eyes glowing and feverish, all her body
 813 II |          night. As he was young and good-looking, nobody troubled about where
 814 V  |            marquise bade the doctor good-night, making him promise to pray
 815 I  |           use great self-control to govern the anger he felt at being
 816 III|             was familiar with every grade in the social scale, disguising
 817 V  |            a mind evidently of some grandeur, professing fearlessness
 818 V  |              if the favour had been granted to the first, it had been
 819 III|         price on the favour she was granting, and the rendezvous was
 820 VI |             and said to the doctor, grasping his arm, "A little longer;
 821 IV |           the criminal, much to the gratification of the public mind. The
 822 I  |         locked behind him.~ ~At the grating of the lock he turned. The
 823 II |         condition was not nearly so grave as that of the two brothers.
 824 II |            in nature, and had shown graver symptoms. It was a kind
 825 VI |          the thing were of the very greatest value you might dispose
 826 VI |           of the chapel window, how greatly changed she was. Her face,
 827 IV |          end of the room a bed with grey curtains for the lady, and
 828 VI |     twisting, she said, with a deep groan, 'O my God, I am killed!'
 829 II |         father moan; then she heard groans. At last, unable to endure
 830 VII|         position, so that he had to guard you closely and rigorously;
 831 I  |            the governor had his new guest put up in the same room
 832 VII|            whose business it was to guide the horse, sat on the front,
 833 I  |      arrived at a point when he was guided not by his personal interest
 834 III|         doors of the convent in the guise of a fellow-countryman just
 835 III|      animals. The report follows of Guy Simon, an apothecary, who
 836 VI |           on a trestle, described a half-curve, as though lying over a
 837 II |           on the top of which lay a half-sheet of paper entitled 'My Will,'
 838 II |             him 40,000 crowns to go halves, but Saint-Laurent refused.
 839 VI |         uncovered, and took out her handkerchief to cover it, asking the
 840 I  | mechanically at the place where the handle of his sword would have
 841 III|             undertake it.  He was a handsome man, thirty-six years old
 842 IV |             himself condemned to be hanged, and his body was burnt.
 843 II |         chief clerk, Messire Pierre Hannyvel, Sieur de Saint-Laurent,
 844 I  |            his God who had let this happen; he cried aloud to whatever
 845 VI |             sufferings now are your happiness; each torture is one step
 846 I  |         mistake for the repose of a happy conscience the cold, cruel
 847 VII|             heart of the marquise a hard struggle was passing, and
 848 V  |            by such an exhibition of hardihood. Now I recognise my fault,
 849 IV |          doomed man declare that he hated confessors, because he had
 850 II |            alarming. Death knows no hatred: death is deaf and blind,
 851 IV |       respect towards her judges as haughtiness towards the witness, reproaching
 852 II |             on the same side, and a hay-cart coming along the street
 853 III|          among other things a paper headed " My Confession." This confession
 854 V  |         doctor to let her drink his health. He replied by drinking
 855 III|          parts of the animal remain healthy and active; even while it
 856 VI |             is passed upon her: she hears the sentence of pardon or
 857 V  |            communion of all. If you heartily detest your crime and love
 858 VII|              and to hear that of my heavenly judge, I owe it to your
 859 IV |    sprightly mood, she cried, "Good heavens, what have I said? Tell
 860 VI |             in the narration of the heavier offences to recite an act
 861 VII|       honorable', and as it was too heavy, weighing two pounds, the
 862 V  |        question, sir, and pray take heed that an answer is necessary.
 863 II |            had meanwhile become the heir of his father-in-law, the
 864 VI |             burning in my eyes like hell-flames. ~ ~ ~Had they left me with
 865 IV |         look upon him not only as a helper but as a friend.~ ~When
 866 V  |     ignominy that may attach to you herefrom; but consider that we are
 867 V  |         they have been condemned as heretics. Only despair and final
 868    | hereupon
 869 VII|        chemical instruments, phials hermetically sealed full of an unknown
 870 VII|           one of the towers several hiding-places, where he shut up his silver
 871 VI |         trestle two feet and a half high on which she lay, they passed
 872 I  |           was by the example of the highest nobility, made no impression
 873 II |          day the post he coveted so highly. People who had no faith
 874 VII|              where there showed the hilt of a long, straight sabre,
 875 IV |             widow, and he alone had hindered it. He had heard from Briancourt
 876 VII|             know more than you have hitherto said."~ ~"I have told all
 877 IV |              this box is small, but holds plenty of successsions!"
 878 I  |            business, was to spend a holiday at his castle called Offemont.
 879 VII|         overlooked, they detected a hollow sound that indicated the
 880 IV |          was condemned to death for homicide and owned his guilt, refused
 881 I  |             corner of the Quai de d'Horloge, a man called up a carriage
 882 VI |          The~executioner inserted a horn into the patient's mouth,
 883 VI |             towards her, may be too horrified to touch anything that belonged
 884 II |            sick, and she walked the hospitals and presented wine and other
 885 V  |             though she were playing hostess in her own country house.
 886 VII|            and the doctor faced the Hotel de Ville. Scarcely had they
 887 II |            in her ordinary way at l'Hotel-Dieu. This time she brought biscuits
 888 V  |      sinners, terrible and numerous howsoever their sins may be. This
 889 IV |            of soup.~ ~The girl Edme Huet, a woman of Brescia, deposed
 890 II |          presence of certain bodily humours sometimes produces similar
 891 VI |            whether it is drawn on a hurdle and thrown upon a dung-heap,
 892 II |           of this fatal closet, had hurried to the commissary as 2496
 893 VI |          the marquise. "There is no hurry, and we cannot start for
 894 III|          chemist, and suggested the idea that he did not employ his
 895 IV |             vizier, told him he had identified the murderers through their
 896 VI |         know that my sentence is an ignominious one? Do you know there is
 897 II |            lest anyone should plead ignorance of the contents, I swear
 898 IV |         your guilt. But I cannot be ignorant of what you are accused
 899 II |                                Part II~M. d'Aubray started with
 900 VII|          the sight of a man who has ill-used me. The man who touched
 901 V  |     twitching with anger, scorn, or ill-will. I forgot to say that she
 902 VII|          been the worst humiliation imaginable; but the movement was restrained,
 903 V  |           and unexpected events, an immovable firmness and a resolution
 904 I  |   extravagances long after they had impaired his fortunes: his affairs
 905 III|           both waited with the same impatience, but with very different
 906 III|          punctual: the marquise was impatiently waiting him; but by a conjunction
 907 V  |              Only despair and final impenitence are unpardonable, and they
 908 V  |             they both knelt down to implore the grace of the Holy Spirit.
 909 III|      missive to Theria. In this she implored him by his own salvation,
 910 I  |            himself to his rage, his imprecations had revealed his state of
 911 I  |          with other men, and was so impressionable a character that he enjoyed
 912 II |            marquise was very little improved in point of fortune. Sainte-Croix
 913 III|            was the marquise equally imprudent. The confession contained
 914 VI |            and since nought that is impure can pass thither, we must
 915 I  |             the period the power of incantation and magic was still believed
 916 I  |        avenge his fate should he be incarcerated for life.~ ~The repugnance
 917 III|      article she accused herself of incendiarism ;~ ~In the second, of having
 918 II |          food, and the vomiting was incessant. The last three days of
 919 VII|            the same moment the head inclined to the left, slid on to
 920 VI |           the friendship might have included some business about the
 921 VI |            the costs shall be paid, including those of Amelin called Lachaussee.
 922 II |            deaths, so sudden and so incomprehensible, was bruited about Paris,
 923 I  |         would free herself from the inconvenience of his rigid censorship,
 924 III|        10,000 livres, but they were incorruptible. At Rocroy the cortege met
 925 VI |       though lying over a wheel. To increase the stretch of the limbs,
 926 III|        disclosure of this kind only increased the interest of the scene;
 927 IV |        again rehearse the penalties incurred by those who betray confessions.
 928 III|        experiment was tried upon an Indian fowl, a pigeon, a dog, and
 929 V  |      nothing in her face that would indicate such evil. She had very
 930 II |           might be accounted for by indigestion; so he dosed him, and went
 931 IV |           him. Then the Parliament, indignant with such means of finding
 932 IV |             wretched Armenians, and indignation against the priest who had
 933 VII|           of their own accord every indignity they could think of; yet
 934 IV |     sanctity of a sacrament that is indispensable to salvation.~ ~THIRD CASE~
 935 II |       persons who had eaten it felt indisposed after the meal, and the
 936 II |      thought it was only a trifling indisposition, and was not willing that
 937 III|             man. This was enough to induce Madame Mangot de Villarceaux,
 938 V  |        alone together, she had been induced by his piety and gentleness
 939 I  |            a fuller liberty for the indulgence of her new passion, demanded
 940 III|            a sort of stone known as infernal stone.~ ~"Next, a paper
 941 IV |       receive the punishment of his infidelity and crimes. The sentence
 942 V  |        prosperity in this world and infinite glory in the next! Dictate
 943 IV |            stake, with consequences infinitely more important. He felt
 944 VI |              generally so pale, was inflamed, her eyes glowing and feverish,
 945 III|     consulted him three times about inflammation.~ ~Asked why she wrote to
 946 IV |             no hope of breaking her inflexible spirit, except by the agency
 947 III|            matter which resists its influence. The effect produced by
 948 I  |         alone; so I will ask you to inform me what powers you may have
 949 II |             discussed tradition had informed him of the gloves of Jeanne
 950 VII|           instead of submitting the ingredients to the tests of modern science,
 951 II |           already come into all the inheritance he looked for, and so he
 952 I  |            rigid censorship, and by inheriting his goods would repair her
 953 VII|        executioners as ministers of iniquity, servants of injustice,
 954 VII|            of iniquity, servants of injustice, who added of their own
 955 V  |         over, she was given pen and ink, which she had already asked
 956 IV |            own hand, unknown to the inmates of his house, a stranger
 957 III|          burns and scorches all the inner parts with a strange, irresistible
 958 II |             paid another visit, and inquired after certain patients in
 959 II |     culprits, search was fruitless, inquiries led nowhere: the marquise
 960 IV |       forgiveness. Now the priest's insatiable avarice had ruined them
 961 VI |      extraordinary. The~executioner inserted a horn into the patient'
 962 II |             saw that it was idle to insist, and went away, saying that
 963 II |         Madame de Brinvilliers. Her insistence had provoked curiosity,
 964 II |             but the marquise was so insistent as to the necessity for
 965 II |     contrivance of the marquise was installed three months later as servant
 966 IV |             volens'. He cited three instances, and as they are themselves
 967 VI |          you will learn at the very instant when the executioner's axe
 968 I  |            glance at the paper, and instantly recognised the signature
 969 III|            put on the table, or any instrument with which she could wound
 970 V  |         those who have been chiefly instrumental in taking me and bringing
 971 VII|       containing furnaces, chemical instruments, phials hermetically sealed
 972 I  |             offering an intentional insult.~ ~We must now see by what
 973 V  |        question as well as death, I intend to obey the orders of the
 974 II |       signature being verified, she intends to lodge an appeal for nullification."
 975 I  |         their origin is offering an intentional insult.~ ~We must now see
 976 V  |             that she might gain the intercession of the Virgin at the throne
 977 V  |           was impossible to do. Our interchange of letters never ceased
 978 III|         year had been robbed of all intercourse with people of a certain
 979 IV |          and as they are themselves interesting, we copy them verbatim from
 980 II |          several hours to frightful internal pains; but from the beginning
 981 III|            with the d'Aubrays as an interruption to this service. The bag
 982 V  |            made me ask at our first interview how old she was. 'Monsieur,'
 983 II |     peculiar to poisoning cases the intestines, which the fatal poison
 984 I  |             jealous obstacle to the intimacy, and continued his foolish
 985 I  |        replied the man, by no means intimidated by these lordly airs, but
 986 I  |          from the field the marquis introduced Sainte-Croix to his wife,
 987 II |           they proceeded to make an inventory. One of the first objects
 988 II |             disorder; the thread of investigation was snapped in two, and
 989 II |            it; he accordingly began investigations, which were suddenly brought
 990 IV |           secrets of confession are inviolable, that Christians burn the
 991 V  |        table and nobody eating, she invited the doctor to take some
 992 IV |             all fell on their knees invoking the Holy Spirit; then the
 993 VI |          and feverish, all her body involuntarily trembling. The doctor would
 994 I  |           allowing themselves to be involved in the ruin of their enemies,
 995 I  |       French gallantry, which often involves the murderer in a death
 996 II |            step, and at the risk of involving several people in their
 997 III|            and drawn together in an iron ring, after which wedges
 998 III|         inner parts with a strange, irresistible fire.~ ~"The poison employed
 999 IV |          magistrate, foreseeing the issue, and feeling that one so
1000 III|           in consequence a writ was issued against Lachaussee, and