Part

1001 I  |             the stranger, "I am the Italian Exili."~ ~Sainte-Croix shuddered
1002 I  |           not only in France but in Italy as well. Exili had been
1003    | itself
1004 IV |                                Part IV~The sergeant Cluet deposed:
1005 II |       informed him of the gloves of Jeanne d'Albret; the secret was
1006 VII|           and yet suffered all with joy; for, as Tertullian observes,
1007 I  |             to be quite broken off, joyfully accepted. Offemont was exactly
1008 VII|            a victim fattened on the joys of suffering alone."~ ~As
1009 I  |        uniform of a cavalry captain jumped down, shutting the door
1010 IV |        document. Now this judge was justly punished by his superior,
1011 II |          Sainte-Croix's closet: the key was handed to the commissary
1012 III|                Note: There were two kinds of question, one before
1013 V  |       ceased while I was out of the kingdom; do not doubt but that he
1014 VI |            before her, he begged to kiss her hand. She gave it, and
1015 VII|            contracted, her eyebrows knit, flames darted from her
1016 II |        closet where he was shut in, knocked at the door, and received
1017 II |     appeared in her ordinary way at l'Hotel-Dieu. This time she
1018 VII|         found a large closet like a laboratory, containing furnaces, chemical
1019 IV |          deposed: that, observing a lackey to M. d'Aubray, the councillor,
1020 II |        steward called Martin, three lackeys called George, Lapierre,
1021 VII|          the midst of the forest of Laigue. The foreign troops were
1022 IV |            said? Tell nobody." That Lambert, clerk at the palace, told
1023 VII|            she, in a tone of bitter lamentation, gazing at the crowd, who
1024 II |             transfer made by him at Laserre, together with three receipts
1025 II |              but it was more rapid, lasting only twenty-four hours.
1026 V  |            I must end to-day, or at latest to-morrow, and it will be
1027 IV |        otherwise she was lost. ~ ~ ~Laviolette, an archer, deposed that
1028 IV |        still be unknown had not the law of the same God compelled
1029 IV |            Nivelle, one of the best lawyers of the period, consented
1030 II |        journey in his own carriage, leaning upon his daughter's shoulder;
1031 V  |           and well, with no sign of learning and no affectation, always,
1032 II |          Belleguise was the room he leased from the widow Brunet, in
1033 VII|        nearly a quarter of an hour, Lebrun, who stood near, got such
1034 III|          boot. This was having each leg fastened between two planks
1035 II |              left him in his will a legacy of a hundred crowns; moreover,
1036 VI |            as this was done without lengthening the ropes, her limbs were
1037 III|             she and her husband had lent Penautier 10,000 crowns,
1038 II |            father-in-law, the Sieur Lesecq, whose death had most unexpectedly
1039 V  |         returned, he learned from a librarian called Seney, at the porter'
1040 VII|       tumbril was waiting; then she lifted her eyes to see the shameful
1041 V  |         embarrassing circumstances; light-minded and fickle; unstable, paying
1042 V  |            M. Couste. I should have liked to show them to you, but
1043 V  |        difficulty, and choosing her line of conduct in the most embarrassing
1044 I  |         their beauty, suggested the lines of a statue miraculously
1045 II |            left him for an hour. At list, after four days of agony,
1046 VII|           unresisting, all the time listening to the doctor's words and
1047 II |            face showed signs of the liveliest anxiety, and it was for
1048 I  |           young man of cheerful and lively appearance, a merry comrade
1049 I  |       ghastly science that puts the lives of all men in the hand of
1050 I  |               At the grating of the lock he turned. The gaoler had
1051 I  |            entered than he heard it locked behind him.~ ~At the grating
1052 III|        woman there was something of Locusta and something of Messalina
1053 I  |         Exili was taken up, and was lodged in the Bastille. He had
1054 VII|            were to be found in this lonely country in the midst of
1055 I  |          means intimidated by these lordly airs, but signing to his
1056 VI |            you will not be much the loser, for it is of no value,
1057 II |    physicians had been as much at a loss over the post-mortems as
1058 VII|             Repeat these words in a loud voice," said the doctor, "
1059 VII|            may hear."~ ~Then in her loudest voice the marquise repeated -- ~ ~"
1060 VII|      drawing which -- is now in the Louvre, giving to the figure the
1061 III|   presenting his compliments to the lovely and unfortunate marquise.
1062 I  |            as he was a free man the lovers were more attached than
1063 III|            downwards, and takes the lower place. ~ ~ ~"The trial by
1064 II |     Penautier was considered such a lucky fellow that it was generally
1065 III|             containing two or three lumps of prepared opium. "Item,
1066 I  |     Accordingly, when one day after luncheon her maid, Francoise Roussel,
1067 II |      troubled about where all these luxuries came from. It was quite
1068 I  |             jealous to the point of madness even about a courtesan,
1069 III|           he all the same did go to Maestricht, where the marquise was
1070 II | brother-in-law, who was Sieur de la Magdelaine, felt certain vague suspicions
1071 I  |            power of incantation and magic was still believed in) that
1072 IV |        chief president. This worthy magistrate, foreseeing the issue, and
1073 IV |             Lord supposed that in a Mahommedan country, where the laws
1074 I  |            Marquis de Brinvilliers, maitre-de-camp of the Normandy regiment.
1075 VI |          her father, and of the two Maitres d'Aubray, her brothers,
1076 VI |          shall say and declare that maliciously, with desire for revenge
1077 III|        still more plain to see: its malignity extends to every part that
1078 II |            over from Sainte-Croix a man-servant named George, M. de Saint-Laurent
1079 II |          with poetical justice, the manipulation of the poisons proved fatal
1080 VII|          executioner had missed the mark and must needs start afresh.
1081 III|            poison leaves behind the marks and appearance of life.
1082 I  |           eight-and-twenty: she had married the marquis in 1651-that
1083 II |           afterwards in the rue des Masons, near the Sorbonne. They
1084 VII|          about this lady. I had six masses said, and I felt strengthened
1085 VII|           by a wretched horse, well matching the disgraceful conveyance.~ ~
1086 I  |           same room as the old one, mating Exili and Sainte-Croix,
1087 VII|         sound of a chopper chopping meat upon a block: at that moment
1088 I  |          sat up on the bed, feeling mechanically at the place where the handle
1089 II |            presented wine and other medicaments. No one was surprised when
1090 I  |        poisons, comparable with the Medici or the Borgias. For him
1091 II |          valets had taken a dose of medicine that morning, and without
1092 II |        expostulated with her by the medium of an older sister who was
1093 III|             beforehand, the amorous meeting was disturbed two or three
1094 IV |             V, present at the first meetings of the Council of Trent
1095 I  |            through the crowd, which melted away before them; thus the
1096 III|             he had disappeared like Mephistopheles after Faust's end, and nothing
1097 III|           either to mankind or to a merciful God. Sainte-Croix, we know,
1098 I  |             thus it happened that a mere acquaintance grew into a
1099 V  |         judge things too quickly or merely by appearances. M. de Brinvilliers
1100 I  |         Marquis of Brinvilliers,who merrily pursued the road to ruin,
1101 III|            Locusta and something of Messalina as well: antiquity could
1102 II |          favour of his chief clerk, Messire Pierre Hannyvel, Sieur de
1103 I  |        death: others might seek the mighty secret of life, but he had
1104 I  |             of Aigue, three or four miles from Compiegne, it would
1105 II |          the States of Languedoc, a millionaire, and one of those men who
1106 V  |           just as I must do now. Be mindful of your worldly affairs,
1107 I  |         contains no other name than mine, and so you have no right
1108 VII|            around the car, a murmur mingled with curses. ~ ~ ~When they
1109 I  |     suggested the lines of a statue miraculously endowed with life: it was
1110 VI |            that I will do myself no mischief."~ ~"Madame," said the gaoler,
1111 IV |          had been dismissed for his misdemeanours, his testimony against her
1112 VII|            that the executioner had missed the mark and must needs
1113 III|              she despatched a third missive to Theria. In this she implored
1114 I  |         life: it was easy enough to mistake for the repose of a happy
1115 V  |              as a fact, there was a mitigation of the sentence -- made
1116 III|             question to be applied. Mme. Mangot appealed from a
1117 II |           marquise heard her father moan; then she heard groans.
1118 VII|         ingredients to the tests of modern science, they made away
1119 IV |         penance, which Saint-Thomas modified because of his prompt avowal
1120 VI |             it to the marquise, who moistened her lips and then gave it
1121 II |              100 livres each: these moneys and papers he claims."~ ~
1122 V  |         interview how old she was. 'Monsieur,' she said, 'if I were to
1123 I  |    certainty is that he was born at Montauban, and in actual rank and
1124 IV |         were in a large room in the Montgomery tower extending, throughout
1125 II |              gratefully received. A month later she paid another visit,
1126 V  |            execution."~ ~"But M. de Montmorency?" said she.~ ~"But M. de
1127 V  |             so said in the pages of Montresor or any other book that describes
1128 I  |           light but the rays of the moon, which, shining through
1129    | moreover
1130 III|         white powder to a cat, in a morsel of mutton. The cat vomited
1131 VI |            the state of grace or of mortal sin; she sees whether she
1132 VII|         Mary, daughter of David and Mother of Jesus, pray for me; my
1133 VII|          Meanwhile the marquise was mounting the ladder with the executioner,
1134 II |       rebukes were renewed from the mouths of her brothers, one of
1135 VII|          carts, still splashed with mud and marked by the stones
1136 I  |            which often involves the murderer in a death more cruel than
1137 IV |           him he had identified the murderers through their confessor,
1138 II |      blessing the woman who was his murderess. Her grief then broke forth
1139 III|      courtier, as enterprising as a musketeer. In this first visit he
1140 IV |           said, "What! I?" but then muttered to herself: " Lachaussee
1141 II |             who had no faith in the mysteries of alchemy declared that
1142 V  |            the Church, which is the mystical substance of Christ; and
1143 VI |            until she was completely naked. He then led her up to the
1144 II |           had heard of the poisoned napkin given to the young dauphin,
1145 VI |           pause now and then in the narration of the heavier offences
1146 IV |        confess to a priest of their nation, and revealed every detail
1147 II |             d'Aubray was worse; the nausea had ceased, but the pains
1148 VI |             persons appeared in the nave, drawn by curiosity. They
1149 V  |          should understand me thus! Nay, may God grant them long
1150 I  |             not too quickly for the nearest spectators to perceive a
1151 II |         treatment was ordered which necessitated his return to Paris. He
1152 V  |           am to have no hope, it is needless for me to confess." ~ ~ ~"
1153 I  |             trial of Sainte-Croix's newly acquired knowledge, and
1154 VI |            have all the time before nightfall to compose yourself and
1155 IV |           no way guilty; and Maitre Nivelle, one of the best lawyers
1156 I  |          the example of the highest nobility, made no impression upon
1157 VII|             sideways as she wished, nodding and saying, "Oh yes, I understand."
1158 IV |        reason of the legal action: 'Non auditur perire volens'.
1159    | none
1160 II |        Paris, the 25th of May after noon, 1672. Signed by Sainte-Croix,'~ ~"
1161 I  | Brinvilliers, maitre-de-camp of the Normandy regiment. Their age was
1162 II |            servants to Sainfray the notary that it would be necessary
1163 IV |         copy them verbatim from his notes.~ ~ ~FIRST CASE~ ~Dominicus
1164 II |           that morning, and without noticing he must have brought the
1165 I  |           just heard had a terrible notoriety at the time, not only in
1166 VI |          among His elect; and since nought that is impure can pass
1167    | nowhere
1168 II |      intends to lodge an appeal for nullification." This formality over, they
1169 VII|            got down, his legs quite numb from the cramped position
1170 II |       sister who was in a Carmelite nunnery, and the marquise perceived
1171 IV |             and the oldest and most obdurate judges present wept when
1172 V  |          well as death, I intend to obey the orders of the Church
1173 I  |          behind, and the other two, obeying no doubt their master's
1174 IV |             latter, although he had objected that the Conciergerie had
1175 IV |           that she little knew what obligations she was under to him; that
1176 I  |            that, disgusted with his obscure birth, he preferred a splendid
1177 I  |            rest of the room in deep obscurity. The prisoner stood still
1178 VI |          moment in a gilded casket. Obsequies, madame, are for those who
1179 VII|            rapidly, as if to escape observation. There she crouched like
1180 V  |             pains from the first to observe her, so as to lose no time
1181 VII|             joy; for, as Tertullian observes, He was a victim fattened
1182 IV |           of Valencia, heard of his obstinacy. Valencia was the place
1183 III|         Lachaussee denied his guilt obstinately. The judges thinking they
1184 VII|             to poison my sister, to obtain possession of their goods,
1185 V  |           of Saint-Paul without his obtaining this grace, in spite of
1186 VII|            put up a prayer on these occasions, and God has always assisted
1187 VII|           and after a three months' occupation retired to the farther side
1188 I  |            period, perhaps too much occupied with his own pleasure to
1189 VII|     Offemont, father of the present occupier of the castle where the
1190 VI |            hardly fail to revive an odious recollection. My God, my
1191 VI |            narration of the heavier offences to recite an act of contrition. ~ ~ ~
1192 I  |            declared that he was the offspring of poor people, but that,
1193 III|            of the liquid found into oil of tartar and sea water,
1194 III|       Belleguise, Martin, Poitevin, Olivier, Veron pere, the wife of
1195 V  |           like the body; in uniting oneself with the Church, which is
1196 VI |           morning, and on the first onset of the poison took another
1197 II |            for I have not spoken so openly even to my own brother as
1198 I  |            time when this narrative opens, towards the end of 1665,
1199 I  |          over their destruction. In opposition to this French gallantry,
1200 VII|           subject to very different opprobrium, and yet suffered all with
1201 II |      animals -- for their different organisation might put the poisoner's
1202 VI |         dung-heap, or embalmed with Oriental perfumes and laid in a rich
1203 III|             antimony weighing three ounces.~ ~"Next, a packet of powder
1204 II |             countenance she gave no outward sign of that terrible anxiety
1205 III|            men, who could be easily overcome by four or five determined
1206 IV |        expect such words, so he was overjoyed to learn what she felt.
1207 VII|          make sure nothing had been overlooked, they detected a hollow
1208 III|          added, which still further overwhelmed her.~
1209 VII|             of my heavenly judge, I owe it to your care for me,
1210 VII|           of the frontier. Then the owners ventured to take out the
1211 IV |            a remarkably clever way, owning to the adulterous connection
1212 III|         sublimate, the second 2 1/4 ozs. of Roman vitriol, and the
1213 VII|           So they had to stop a few paces short. The executioner had
1214 III|       quince buds dried.~ ~"Item, a pack sealed with six seals, on
1215 V  |            it is not so said in the pages of Montresor or any other
1216 IV |          That Lambert, clerk at the palace, told her he had brought
1217 V  |             and I desire to meet in Paradise those who have been chiefly
1218 III|            the marquise resumed her Parisian manner. Unhappily the charming
1219 VII|             possession. During this paroxysm, which lasted nearly a quarter
1220 IV |       Sainte-Croix, but denying her participation in the murders of the d'
1221 II |     certainty by George's flight. A particular circumstance aided and almost
1222 II |            patients in whom she was particularly interested: since the last
1223 II |          door, and entered with the parties interested, the officers,
1224 I  |            s orders, retired with a parting direction to the driver,~ ~"
1225 VI |           left France; this she had partly paid for, but still owed
1226 II |             about the conditions of partnership disappeared, no one knew
1227 IV |        Brinvilliers, after a dinner party, in a merry mood, said,
1228 V  |          for the judgment he to-day passes against me, far from complaining
1229 III|          with his own crimes in the past, he wished to be their accomplice
1230 IV |          sublimate in powder and in paste: she recognised these, because
1231 II |       Sainte-Croix continued in his path of folly, and all things
1232 V  |            had always taken for her patron saint, and in the midst
1233 IV |          the Council of Trent under Paul III, propounds a question
1234 VI |    continued, the doctor making her pause now and then in the narration
1235 VII|             and set her down on the pavement. The doctor then got down,
1236 II |              maybe, able to give us peace and quiet for the rest of
1237 IV |       making him again rehearse the penalties incurred by those who betray
1238 V  |         fire, without suffering the penalty that my sins have deserved.
1239 IV |          was adjudged a very severe penance, which Saint-Thomas modified
1240 VI |     straining at wrists and ankles, penetrated the flesh and made the blood
1241 V  |          easily excited; clever and penetrating, seeing things very clearly
1242 III|              forced to borrow every penny. Asked as to the first article,
1243 III|      archers, called Claude, Rolla, perceiving her intention, contrived
1244 VII|        concealing what you know, if perchance you do know more than you
1245 III|            Poitevin, Olivier, Veron pere, the wife of Quesdon the
1246 V  |             madame, and is the most perfect communion of all. If you
1247 VI |           or embalmed with Oriental perfumes and laid in a rich man's
1248 IV |          legal action: 'Non auditur perire volens'. He cited three
1249 IV |             death, the poisons must perish with her, or else society
1250 I  |                Our readers will now permit us to make them more fully
1251 IV |           being arrested.~ ~Laurent Perrette, living with Glazer, said
1252 IV |            like these. The marquise persisted, all the same, that she
1253 IV |             charitable as to try to persuade the criminal to make his
1254 VII|     furnaces, chemical instruments, phials hermetically sealed full
1255 II |     commonly said to have found the philosopher's stone. In his life in
1256 I  |           endowed with the conjugal philosophy which alone pleased the
1257 V  |            told her that one of her phrases was not right -- the one
1258 II |         they were all dead, and the physicians had been as much at a loss
1259 IV |             ought to be sent off to Picardy." The witness repeated that
1260 VI |            the man stooped down and picked up all the beads, which
1261 VII|            unsuspected cavity. With picks and bars they broke the
1262 II |        where her town house was, to Picpus, her country place. Thence
1263 III|          and the clear water in the pie at Villequoy; that Sainte-Croix
1264 II |             the country there was a pigeon-pie for dinner: seven persons
1265 VI |          forced him to open them by pinching his nose with the~finger
1266 VI |          vessels, each containing 2 pints of water. Four of these~
1267 II |             had the reputation of a pious and charitable lady; seldom
1268 III|           to make him a gift of 100 pistolets; that he gave him an account
1269 IV |          with a sabre and a pair of pistols, it so befell that they
1270 IV |             the contrary, felt deep pity for the wretched Armenians,
1271 V  |              and she made a sign of pitying them. Seeing that the dinner
1272 VII|            the doctor in words both plaintive and wild: "Is it possible
1273 III|            her to put it out on her plate. Then she promised him,
1274 VII|           and when they reached the platform he told her to kneel down
1275 IV |             to encourage me. I will play my part, and that at once:
1276 V  |      brought in, as though she were playing hostess in her own country
1277 II |              And lest anyone should plead ignorance of the contents,
1278 III|           rate, of the most worldly pleasures. She had soon found consolation
1279 VI |             is the doctor, who will pledge his word that I will do
1280 II |         those devoted women who are pledged to the service of the sick,
1281 IV |             box is small, but holds plenty of successsions!" That she
1282 I  |             from his joyous life to plunge him into a dungeon; he cursed
1283 VI |           sees whether she is to be plunged forever into hell, or if
1284 IV |             the same room where the poet Theophile was once shut
1285 II |              but in accordance with poetical justice, the manipulation
1286 II |             and look at it from all points of view; take it at its
1287 III|      mentioned, Belleguise, Martin, Poitevin, Olivier, Veron pere, the
1288 VII|             Sevigne, who was on the Pont Notre-Dame, could see nothing
1289 I  | considerable crowd assembled on the Pont-Neuf where it makes a turn down
1290 III|             and might bring about a popular rising, during which the
1291 VII|           sign. She now came to the porch of the Conciergerie, between
1292 V  |      librarian called Seney, at the porter's lodge, as he was taking
1293 V  |     communion of agony that is your portion, madame, and is the most
1294 VI |          know I have now no worldly possessions, that all I have upon me
1295 II |             much at a loss over the post-mortems as over the treatment of
1296 II |           country place. Thence she posted the same evening to Liege,
1297 III|           Item, a small earthenware pot containing two or three
1298 I  |       indicated certain powders and potions, some of them of dull action,
1299 III|        found more sublimate, half a pound in weight.~ ~"Item, another
1300 III|      drachms of corrosive sublimate powdered.~ ~"Next, a little box containing
1301 VI |           then took up her cloak, a prayer-book which Father Chavigny had
1302 IV |            was no doubt due to this precaution that he was still alive;
1303 IV |             In accordance with this precedent, the following judgment,
1304 III|          sea water, and nothing was precipitated into the vessels used; the
1305 VI |             ourselves. But I should prefer to leave this to somebody
1306 I  |           compact of this kind, one prefers to know with whom one is
1307 VI |             by doing so she was not prejudicing her own case; for either
1308 IV |      sentence was given. The worthy prelate was so charitable as to
1309 II |         furnace, watching the fatal preparation as it became hotter and
1310 VII|         question chamber? All these preparations are very cruel; and, in
1311 III|       sufficient proof, ordered the preparatory question to be applied.
1312 VII|             from this earth, but to preserve them from all sin. 'My Father,'
1313 II |           of the one some means for preserving the life of the other. The
1314 IV |             him, the letter, and he pretended to deliver it.~ ~Finally,
1315 II |           hand, put it to his lips, pretending to taste it himself, and
1316 I  |        darkness or of light were to prevail. Maybe, if he had met some
1317 VII|             did all in his power to prevent her from hearing this by
1318 III|           than would serve to put a price on the favour she was granting,
1319 IV |      country, where the laws of the priesthood and the functions of a confessor
1320 V  |             Up to the reign of this prince, the guilty died without
1321 I  |          fancy; his prodigality was princely, although he had no income;
1322 VII|           in order to show that the principal features were the same,
1323 I  |      brought to the same place. The prisoners were numerous just then,
1324 V  |            rule. You must expect no privilege; in your case the ordinary
1325 VI |       executioner's assistant. Thus proceeding, she first felt embarrassment
1326 IV |            get news of him, at last proclaimed through the town a large
1327 III|         Desgrais had taken pains to procure, the council authorised
1328 I  |          upon his own fair name: he procured a warrant for the arrest
1329 I  |           once taken his fancy; his prodigality was princely, although he
1330 II |            bodily humours sometimes produces similar appearances, they
1331 V  |         evidently of some grandeur, professing fearlessness in the most
1332 I  |             means, and I am here to proffer it. Have you the courage
1333 II |      strayed. And then the marquise profited by the terrible calm look
1334 VII|       promise, the doctor said a De Profundis. When the prayer was done
1335 VII|          with me. You will say a De Profundus at the moment of my death,
1336 II |       tenderness, though the vilest projects were in her heart. With
1337 III|            Barbier took the letter, promising to deliver it at the right
1338 IV |             modified because of his prompt avowal of his fault, and
1339 IV |            desire for vengeance had prompted the bad priest to betray
1340 VI |        goods are confiscated to the proper persons; and the sum of
1341 I  |             was small but perfectly proportioned; her rounded face was charmingly
1342 IV |            of Trent under Paul III, propounds a question about a man who
1343 IV |             guilty to the priest is proscribed by the Christian religion,
1344 V  |             from complaining of the prosecutor who has demanded it, I thank
1345 V  |             may God grant them long prosperity in this world and infinite
1346 II |             wore over his face as a protection from any poisonous exhalations
1347 V  |            family, and she was very proud of the connection. No doubt
1348 IV |          risen and shaken her head, proudly replying -- "No, no, father;
1349 II |           would appear to be in the province of God alone. This Penautier
1350 IV |          Turkish gentleman, but her prudence was long an obstacle to
1351 IV |           Now this judge was justly punished by his superior, because
1352 VI |         uncertainty to His rightful punishments. At that moment when the
1353 V  |          needed the scaffold for my purification? Now I see all my wrong-doings,
1354 VI |             must strive, madame, to purify you from all that might
1355 I  |            Brinvilliers,who merrily pursued the road to ruin, without
1356 I  |            the ghastly science that puts the lives of all men in
1357 I  |          then, at the corner of the Quai de d'Horloge, a man called
1358 I  |  Sainte-Croix, a strange mixture of qualities good and evil, had reached
1359 VI |     marquise had now taken half the quantity of water she had thought
1360 III|             Veron pere, the wife of Quesdon the wigmaker, be summoned
1361 I  |    suffering; others violent and so quick, that they kill like a flash
1362 II |           able to give us peace and quiet for the rest of our days!
1363 VI |           that moment when the soul quits her earthly body the judgment
1364 VI |             and made her sit on the rack of the ordinary question,
1365 VI |      marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which
1366 I  |            abandoned himself to his rage, his imprecations had revealed
1367 II |            day the civil lieutenant rang his bell, and Lachaussee,
1368 VII|           first, which she did very rapidly, as if to escape observation.
1369 VI |          them contained nothing but rarefied arsenic; that as to an antidote,
1370 I  |           him with no light but the rays of the moon, which, shining
1371 III|       extends to every part that it reaches, and all that it touches
1372 IV |           and that we have to be in readiness for a long time, not to
1373 V  |          communicate spiritually in reading the word, which is like
1374 VII|           barbarity, though that is real enough, but consider it
1375 V  |              and I think you should realise, madame, that if you do
1376 I  |   supernatural vision to a horrible reality. The name he had just heard
1377 II |            wishes that are just and reasonable in this matter, I charge
1378 II |       Experiments of this kind were reassuring; so Lachaussee had orders
1379 VI |            the only thing she could recall was toads; that Sainte-Croix
1380 V  |         Besides," he continued, "in recalling examples of the kind, madame,
1381 II |        Laserre, together with three receipts from his master of apprenticeship,
1382 II |           named Reich de Penautier, receiver-general of the clergy and treasurer
1383 V  |             have the consolation of receiving the viaticum before I die?"~ ~"
1384 V  |          that the affection was not reciprocated, as her husband had abandoned
1385 VI |             the heavier offences to recite an act of contrition. ~ ~ ~
1386 VII|        voice, and loudly and firmly recited the following apology. ~ ~ ~"
1387 VI |       marquise had during the night recollected certain articles that she
1388 VI |            Lord, there to receive a recompense for earthly martyrdom."~ ~"
1389 VI |             on which was a faithful record of the sums she had paid
1390 III|           appeared stunned; quickly recovering, she claimed a paper inside
1391 II |            They gave up all hope of recovery. Indeed, his state grew
1392 VII|           At the sight the marquise reddened with shame, and turning
1393 I  |         that everyone who makes any reference to their origin is offering
1394 IV |               said she, "the more I reflect the more I feel that one
1395 VII|           was passing, and this was reflected on her face; but it was
1396 IV |             asked the reason of the refusal, to hear the doomed man
1397 IV |       fortune, they were obliged to refuse the sum he demanded. Faithful
1398 VII|              madame, could but have regarded His executioners as ministers
1399 VI |            had nothing more to tell regarding her accomplices, she said
1400 VII|              forgive me; and do not regret the time you have passed
1401 I  |            pretty; her features, so regular that no emotion seemed to
1402 IV |            bishop, making him again rehearse the penalties incurred by
1403 II |          the latter was a man named Reich de Penautier, receiver-general
1404 III|              and when silence again reigned, the official continued
1405 IV |            cases, either the judges rejected them, or perhaps they thought
1406 III|     forthwith. We give it verbatim, rejoicing that we may substitute an
1407 II |            came they had suffered a relapse -- the malady had changed
1408 III|            country, deserted by her relatives, forced to borrow every
1409 V  |             orders that there was a relaxation of this severity. Besides,
1410 II |              seldom did she fail to relieve the poor who appealed: more
1411 V  |            day. For this kindness I rely on your word.' Anyone would
1412 III|             all parts of the animal remain healthy and active; even
1413 VI |             yourself and think what remains for you to do."~ ~"Ah, sir,"
1414 IV |          charge after another, in a remarkably clever way, owning to the
1415 IV |           speaking of the marquise, remarked, "She is a lost woman."
1416 VI |        sister; and I fear lest she, remembering my crime towards her, may
1417 VI |          that the sight of it would remind her to pray for me; but
1418 V  |          had not yet said mass, and reminded him herself that it was
1419 V  |           pardoned, and that to get remission for your crimes, if crimes
1420 I  |           Rome was he, the pupil of Rene and of Trophana, convicted
1421 II |              while the rebukes were renewed from the mouths of her brothers,
1422 I  |        secret by whose aid he could repay all the evil he had received.
1423 VII|           to the doctor's words and repeating them from time to time,
1424 VI |            sister, whereof she doth repent, asking pardon of God, of
1425 II |         father's heart -- loved his repentant daughter more than if she
1426 IV |            shaken her head, proudly replying -- "No, no, father; there
1427 IV |             the following judgment, reported in the 'Traite des Confesseurs',
1428 III|          the mattress, the official reporter retired. Half an hour later
1429 IV |           far as one could judge by reports in the town, it was a foregone
1430 IV |    haughtiness towards the witness, reproaching him as a miserable valet,
1431 VI |          may leave our narrative to reproduce the official report.~ ~"
1432 I  |        incarcerated for life.~ ~The repugnance felt by Sainte-Croix for
1433 II |         taken. The marquise had the reputation of a pious and charitable
1434 I  |                 To the officer this request seemed a just one: he signed
1435 II |             and Penautier no longer required help; he had already come
1436 VII|             the same, and the whole resemblance very striking. The delay
1437 V  |             she replied, "I feel no resentment towards them, and I desire
1438 I  |             for experiment. God has reserved the act of creation for
1439 II |           Marquise de Brinvilliers, resident in the rue Neuve-Saint-Paul,
1440 I  |          his promise and offered no resistance; for some moments he followed
1441 IV |        However strongly pressed, he resisted, and so violently, giving
1442 III|         acrid and sour matter which resists its influence. The effect
1443 II |            them, and defied all the resources of their art. A fortnight
1444 IV |             it all, showing as much respect towards her judges as haughtiness
1445 VI |             Thus shall you gain the respite you desire." ~ ~The executioner
1446 VII|            arrest you, and was in a responsible position, so that he had
1447 VII|    imaginable; but the movement was restrained, and her face gave no sign.
1448 III|            she got no answer and no result from her letters, she despatched
1449 V  |           it is in order that I may resume my place with more vigour
1450 VI |              had asked her leave to retire, that he might say a mass
1451 III|     resolved to seek her out in the retreat where she was supposed to
1452 III|      herself in one of the cloister retreats whose secret is known only
1453 VII|          from Thee it came, to Thee returns; Thou art the source and
1454 VII|          shall one day arise and be reunited with my soul. I trouble
1455 IV |           public exhibition of that reverence which judges themselves
1456 II |            the clergy, obtained the reversion for nothing -- a thing that
1457 VI |         rosary could hardly fail to revive an odious recollection.
1458 IV |          the judges were obliged to revoke their sentence and pardon
1459 III|            rules useless, aphorisms ridiculous. The surest experiments
1460 VII|          left corner, on the straw, riding backwards. The doctor sat
1461 VII|            to guard you closely and rigorously; even if he had been more
1462 III|           drawn together in an iron ring, after which wedges were
1463 II |    poisonous exhalations that might rise up from the mixture, suddenly
1464 IV |             of consolation, she had risen and shaken her head, proudly
1465 VI |             doubt on the point, she risked writing a letter as though
1466 VII|              the marquise faced the river, and the doctor faced the
1467 I  |            for a moment, their eyes riveted; then the mysterious stranger
1468 I  |            with a cry more like the roaring of a wild beast than any
1469 III|         they were incorruptible. At Rocroy the cortege met M. Palluau,
1470 IV |          Confesseurs', was given by Roderic Acugno. A Catalonian, native
1471 IV |             had called Briancourt a rogue, but Briancourt had replied
1472 V  |          she was unaware that M. de Rohan had received the sacrament
1473 II |             were thus busy, a small roll fell down, on which these
1474 III|             archers, called Claude, Rolla, perceiving her intention,
1475 III|            the second 2 1/4 ozs. of Roman vitriol, and the third some
1476 VI |             without lengthening the ropes, her limbs were still further
1477 VII|             Mlle. de Scudery, M, de Roquelaure, and the Abbe de Chimay.
1478 II |           insisted, begging them to rouse him up, for she wanted a
1479 VI |          ashes more glorious than a royal corpse lying at this moment
1480 II |           no apparent means, it was rumoured that he was about to purchase
1481 VI |            flesh and made the blood run. The question began once
1482 V  |          the woman, "Poor Madame du Rus," said she, "I have been
1483 II |       astonishment was felt at this ruthless destruction of all who bore
1484 III|           might be looked upon as a sacrilege, and might bring about a
1485 II |       family, however, was not only sad but alarming. Death knows
1486 VI |           the matter. The man was a saddler, from whom the marquise
1487 I  |             woman escaped for whose safety the prisoner seemed so much
1488 II |         said before the servants to Sainfray the notary that it would
1489 IV |         their carriage at the Foire Saint-Germain. Marie de Villeray, maid
1490 IV |            her one day at the cross Saint-Honore, there showed her four little
1491 IV |         Sister Marie at the convent Saint-Jacques. Her letter exhorted the
1492 V  |           death of the constable of Saint-Paul without his obtaining this
1493 VII|           in front of the church of Sainte-Genevieve des Ardents. But, slowly
1494 V  |              if I were to live till Sainte-Madeleine's day I should be forty-six.
1495 III|             to kill herself for his sake. But she had adopted a new
1496 V  |            and let us say the 'Veni Sancte Spiritus'."~ ~She obeyed,
1497 IV |          importance of securing the sanctity of a sacrament that is indispensable
1498 III|         pour the same liquid into a sanded vessel, and at the bottom
1499 I  |         demon, who conducted him to Satan. Exili was no vulgar poisoner:
1500 I  |        which, however, could not be satisfactorily brought home to him. He