Part

1501 II |        steady hands the cup and its saucer, she went back to her own
1502 III|    frightful torture in the hope of saving his life, and so would often
1503 III|           every grade in the social scale, disguising himself as a
1504 VI |             as should atone for her scandalous effrontery. She then took
1505 VI |           to be burnt and the ashes scattered; and first she is to be
1506 I  |        destruction to be within the scope of man: man therefore supposes
1507 III|           is vitiated; it burns and scorches all the inner parts with
1508 V  |          face twitching with anger, scorn, or ill-will. I forgot to
1509 VI |           been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets
1510 I  |          Dreux d'Aubray: he had the scrupulosity of a legal dignitary. He
1511 VII|          Madame du Refuge, Mlle. de Scudery, M, de Roquelaure, and the
1512 III|        found into oil of tartar and sea water, and nothing was precipitated
1513 II |           death; and hearing that a seal had been set upon his room,
1514 V  |            the doctor then rose and seated himself at a table, while
1515 III|         known only to the superior; secondly, because Liege was so religious
1516 IV |         recognise the importance of securing the sanctity of a sacrament
1517 III|           clear liquid with a white sediment, about which Moreau said
1518    | seeming
1519 VI |         grace or of mortal sin; she sees whether she is to be plunged
1520 III|          the moment of confusion to seize the chest and throw it into
1521 II |          pious and charitable lady; seldom did she fail to relieve
1522 I  |      knowledge, and M. d'Aubray was selected by his daughter for the
1523 I  |            that he had to use great self-control to govern the anger he felt
1524 V  |          scruple, for it will be no self-indulgence, but a necessity, and the
1525 VI |        forever into hell, or if God sends her for a time to purgatory.
1526 V  |             from a librarian called Seney, at the porter's lodge,
1527 II |       sensible: do show your common sense, my good man, and look at
1528 III|             that she was out of her senses. ~ ~ ~Asked about the six
1529 II |         else you simply will not be sensible: do show your common sense,
1530 I  |        income; further, he was most sensitive to slights, as all men are
1531 V  |           lord and master of all my sentiments from now till I die; read
1532 II |        lieutenant, had the power to separate her again from her lover.
1533 VII|      shudder she was again calm and serene; then she said: -- ~ ~"Sir,
1534 IV |                         Part IV~The sergeant Cluet deposed: that, observing
1535 I  |             and two out of the four sergeants who were with him were holding
1536 V  | fellow-guests to excuse her for not serving them, pointing out that
1537 III|         written. In this were found seventy-five livres, addressed to different
1538 II |          died: the poison had taken seventy-two days to complete its work.
1539 VII|           his feet stuck out on the shafts. Thus it is easy to understand
1540 IV |      consolation, she had risen and shaken her head, proudly replying -- "
1541 VI |            would choke herself, and shaking her head, said, with a smile, "
1542 VII|          the marquise reddened with shame, and turning to the doctor,
1543 VI |           death of despair, but the shamefulness is the same, and it is that
1544 I  |           ten feet from the ground, shed a gleam upon a miserable
1545 I  |            rays of the moon, which, shining through a barred window
1546 VII|        whose arm she held, felt her shiver at this gallantry, which
1547 VII|         before her, he took off her shoes and stockings. Then she
1548 VII|            afresh. But his fear was short-lived, for almost at the same
1549 VII|         shirt, so as to uncover the shoulders, and finally bandaged her
1550 III|            difference in the amount shows that Sainte-Croix had a
1551 VII|             after a last convulsive shudder she was again calm and serene;
1552 I  |      Italian Exili."~ ~Sainte-Croix shuddered anew, passing from a supernatural
1553 II |             was attacked by fearful sickness, which brought, him to death'
1554 VII|           it at the back and at the sides, making her turn her head
1555 VII|        looked back, and then turned sideways as she wished, nodding and
1556 V  |           the doctor's answer, only sighed.~ ~"Besides," he continued, "
1557 I  |           by these lordly airs, but signing to his men that they must
1558 II |             But now her face showed signs of the liveliest anxiety,
1559 VII| hiding-places, where he shut up his silver and such other valuables
1560 III|           The report follows of Guy Simon, an apothecary, who was
1561 III|             was more expensive than simple assassination. Thus in his
1562 V  |           there are no unpardonable sinners, terrible and numerous howsoever
1563 II |          his lips, but at the first sip pushed it away, crying, "
1564 III|           of some business with her sister-in-law.~ ~Asked if she had any
1565 I  |      spectators to perceive a woman sitting at the back of the carriage.
1566 I  |          Martin de Breuille, a room situated in the blind, alley off
1567 VI |         suppose that a person of my size could swallow it all." The
1568 II |             desperately ill; living skeletons, all that seemed left of
1569 V  |            was giving a first brief sketch of her life to her confessor,
1570 III|       deposits; in animals it is so skilfully concealed that no one could
1571 V  |       gentle, extraordinarily white skin, good nose, and no disagreeable
1572 II |             always with her father, sleeping in a room adjoining his,
1573 VII|          head inclined to the left, slid on to the shoulder, and
1574 II |             was closed, and not the slightest suspicion had approached
1575 I  |            he was most sensitive to slights, as all men are who, because
1576 VI |         fasten it with. When he was slow in finding a pin, looking
1577 II |          fatigue, killing them by a slows strange decay. She asked
1578 VII|           object. It was one of the smallest of carts, still splashed
1579 II |         thread of investigation was snapped in two, and the two ends
1580 IV |             him to come at once and snatch her from the hands of the
1581 I  |       cursed his fellow-man who had snatched him from his joyous life
1582 VI |            her. "Ah yes," he cried, sobbing, "with all my heart." She
1583 III|             with every grade in the social scale, disguising himself
1584 VI |           be thus cleansed from all soil and sin that may be still
1585 VII|          among them the Countess of Soissons, Madame du Refuge, Mlle.
1586 I  |             Brinvilliers during his sojourn in the Bastille, but it
1587 IV |           her from the hands of the soldiers; that in the second she
1588 VII|            and your promise was too solemn for you to think for one
1589 VI |             prefer to leave this to somebody else."~ ~"Madame," said
1590    | somehow
1591 VI |       assurance calmed the marquise somewhat, and she thanked the man.
1592 IV |              FIRST CASE~ ~Dominicus Soto, a very famous canonist
1593 V  |           flames of purgatory where souls are burned for a time are
1594 III|              leaving only acrid and sour matter which resists its
1595 II |             day an officer from the sovereign's court came to see him,
1596 V  |          acting kindly if you could spare me for a few hours. I might
1597 V  |       without exception; for if you spared them, they would be able
1598 VI |             not bear to witness the spectacle just described, had asked
1599 VII|             to speak. The blade had sped so quickly that the doctor
1600 V  |            I shall be saved without spending a long time in purgatory;
1601 IV |            I come to render you any spiritual office that I can; I only
1602 V  |             and one may communicate spiritually in reading the word, which
1603 V  |             us say the 'Veni Sancte Spiritus'."~ ~She obeyed, and said
1604 VII|            smallest of carts, still splashed with mud and marked by the
1605 I  |       obscure birth, he preferred a splendid disgrace, and therefore
1606 III|           Desgrais at the appointed spot: he gave her his arm then
1607 II |            were marked with reddish spots like flea-bites. In June
1608 II |             noise of the event soon spread all over Paris. Sainte-Croix
1609 III|            active; even while it is spreading the cause of death, this
1610 IV |          but soon changing from her sprightly mood, she cried, "Good heavens,
1611 III|             Aubray and the Sieur de St. Laurent." ~ ~The difference
1612 IV |           but he feared he would be stabbed, because she had told him
1613 I  |             s conduct, and feared a stain upon his own fair name:
1614 II |         clergy and treasurer of the States of Languedoc, a millionaire,
1615 II |             and in the same a paper stating that the said sum belonged
1616 I  |            suggested the lines of a statue miraculously endowed with
1617 VII|            as it moved, the tumbril steadily advanced, and at last reached
1618 IV |           affairs have made a great stir, and there are few people
1619 VII|           he took off her shoes and stockings. Then she stretched out
1620    | stop
1621 I  |        plain to see that a terrible storm was gathering, soon to break.
1622 VI |              and the bonds, tightly straining at wrists and ankles, penetrated
1623 II |          more than if she had never strayed. And then the marquise profited
1624 I  |           and a cold sweat began to stream down his face as the strange
1625 VII|             masses said, and I felt strengthened in hand and heart." He then
1626 VI |            a wheel. To increase the stretch of the limbs, the man gave
1627 III|           and she counted on him to strike this bald stroke. But, uneasy
1628 VI |          when the executioner's axe strikes you; unless, indeed, the
1629 VII|          the whole resemblance very striking. The delay in progress was
1630 VII|       doctor, said, "Is this man to strip me again, as he did in the
1631 VI |           can pass thither, we must strive, madame, to purify you from
1632 IV |           As to the confession, the strongest and, he maintained, the
1633 VII|          and the marquise, his feet stuck out on the shafts. Thus
1634 II |         could discover the cause by studying the progress of the disorder;
1635 II |            it, Couste: what is this stuff?" The secretary put a few
1636 IV |            verses in his well-known style written by his hand.~ ~As
1637 II |            but as before upon human subjects; as before, a 'corpus vili'
1638 VII|          importance; and instead of submitting the ingredients to the tests
1639 III|     verbatim, rejoicing that we may substitute an official report for our
1640 II |     Penautier had a great desire to succeed the Sieur of Mennevillette,
1641 II |            asked for a post without success, and had made friends with
1642 II |            those men who are always successful, and who seem able by the
1643 VI |      declared to be deprived of all successions from her said father, brothers,
1644 IV |          small, but holds plenty of successsions!" That she gave back the
1645 II |             to which his father had succumbed, and they supposed it was
1646 VI |    registrar and the answers of the sufferer. Her cries seemed not even
1647 V  |          cease? For the torment she suffers is like that of the damned,
1648 V  |          His goodness, allows it to suffice."~ ~"But," replied the marquise, "
1649 V  |           the evidence would not be sufficiently strong to convict me. But
1650 V  |              I could not venture to suggest any doubts. After the letters
1651 VII|           to time, when they seemed suitable to her own condition. Meanwhile,
1652 III|         arrest against Lapierre and summons against Penautier decreed
1653 III|         each of which was written: 'Sundry curious secrets.'~ ~"Item,
1654 II |             bequeathed the care and supervision of her to her brothers.
1655 II |           by a lightning stroke. At supper-time, his wife finding that he
1656 IV |           cases, where the evidence supplied by the accused against themselves
1657 II |        Saint-Laurent, with the full support of the clergy, obtained
1658 VII|            The doctor came at once, supporting her head upon his breast,
1659 I  |         scope of man: man therefore supposes that in destroying life
1660 I  |           and evil, had reached the supreme crisis of his life, when
1661 III|           aphorisms ridiculous. The surest experiments are made by
1662 II |             and more than that, the surface of his body was burnt away.
1663 II |    performed in the presence of the surgeons Dupre and Durant, and Gavart,
1664 VI |     chaplain. The latter was in his surplice, and chanted a 'Veni Creator,
1665 V  |             of the parricide. It is surprising, therefore -- and one must
1666 VI |             home of the blessed who surround the throne of the Lord,
1667 I  |            he followed the officer, surrounded by a crowd which seemed
1668 V  |            yourself, for your crime survives you. You know, madame, that
1669 I  |        debauch; in love he was most susceptible, and jealous to the point
1670 IV |      marquise perceived the doctor, suspecting that her trial was leading
1671 IV |            are guilty at all, and I suspend my judgment as to all the
1672 II |             face, in which the most suspicious eye could detect nothing
1673 III|           tried to choke herself by swallowing a pin. One of the archers,
1674 II |            this occasion was not so swift as the one taken by M. d'
1675 I  |             where the handle of his sword would have been but two
1676 I  |             known: according to one tale, he was the natural son
1677 II |           seen the corpse, and they talked. The commissary Picard was
1678 II |     possible that you need any more talking to about the matter you
1679 VI |          Creator, Salve Regina, and Tantum ergo'. These prayers over,
1680 VII|           that had been hidden; and tapping the walls, to make sure
1681 III|             that Sainte-Croix had a tariff, and that parricide was
1682 III|            liquid found into oil of tartar and sea water, and nothing
1683 IV |          feeble to undertake such a task, being unable even to see
1684 II |          possibly the poison he had tasted on the former occasion helped,
1685 I  |           at last he yielded to the taunts of his companion, who accused
1686 VI |          several times, 'O God, you tear me to, pieces! Lord, pardon
1687 VII|           to tell me of any sort of temptation that might assail you." ~ ~ ~"
1688 IV |     happened to him. The confessor, tempted by this bait, secretly gave
1689 II |           detect nothing but filial tenderness, though the vilest projects
1690 II |           hands on during a game of tennis, and knew that the contact
1691 IV |           said with an air of great terror, "Father, must I die?" And
1692 VII|      suffered all with joy; for, as Tertullian observes, He was a victim
1693 III|             its nature until it was tested. "Item, another phial, with
1694 IV |          for his misdemeanours, his testimony against her ought to go
1695 VII|   submitting the ingredients to the tests of modern science, they
1696 IV |          that can only be discussed tete-a-tete. Farewell, then, my father;
1697 VI |             they put into her hand. Thanking them humbly for this attention,
1698 VI |         since the morning, was now, thanks to the patient goodness
1699 IV |            very famous canonist and theologian, confessor to Charles V,
1700 IV |            same room where the poet Theophile was once shut up, and near
1701 III|             thirty-six years old or thereabouts: nothing in his looks betrayed
1702 VI |           of attempting the life of Therese d'Aubray, her sister; in
1703 II |             charge their conscience therewith in discharging my own in
1704 V  |             put by way of a general thesis, and has nothing to do with
1705 I  |           was about twenty-eight or thirty, a fine young man of cheerful
1706 III|              He was a handsome man, thirty-six years old or thereabouts:
1707 VI |             that is impure can pass thither, we must strive, madame,
1708 III|    indicated; thus Lachaussee had a thorough knowledge of this closet:
1709 II |           his comfort in every way, thoughtful and affectionate, allowing
1710 IV |     brothers; they would give him a thrashing, no doubt, and he may just
1711 IV |         went beyond all bounds, and threatened to kill both her and her
1712 V  |            be wrung from her by the threats of the judges or the fear
1713 VI |            nose with the~finger and thumb.]~ ~prepared for her, and
1714 II |          struck the marquise like a thunderbolt. There was no time to be
1715 IV |             that between Sunday and Thursday her feelings had changed
1716 VII|            the figure the head of a tiger, in order to show that the
1717 VI |           The executioner then tied tight the cords round her hands
1718 VI |           stretched, and the bonds, tightly straining at wrists and
1719 I  |            for action. M. d'Aubray, tired with business, was to spend
1720 III|        Desgrais complained of these tiresome checks; besides, the marquise
1721 V  |             of course you must rest to-night. Let us just finish this
1722 VI |          thing she could recall was toads; that Sainte-Croix never
1723 VII|             but though this ghastly toilet lasted almost half an hour,
1724 VII|          comfort her; but she, in a tone of bitter lamentation, gazing
1725 I  |            stranger spoke in gloomy tones. "Young man," said he, "
1726 III|        nothing acrid or acid to the tongue, scarcely any stains; the
1727 VII|           When her hair was cut, he tore open the top of the shirt,
1728 V  |             some day cease? For the torment she suffers is like that
1729 VI |           and my feet, are they not torn and wounded? Have not my
1730 II |            died a prey to frightful tortures. The same day an officer
1731 VI |           she could scarcely stand; tottering, she stepped forward between
1732 VI |             may be too horrified to touch anything that belonged to
1733 III|            reaches, and all that it touches is vitiated; it burns and
1734 IV |             In 1579 an innkeeper at Toulouse killed with his own hand,
1735 VI |              for, in spite of their trade, I fancy that these people
1736 II |             and the still discussed tradition had informed him of the
1737 IV |        revealed every detail of the tragic story. This unworthy minister
1738 IV |          judgment, reported in the 'Traite des Confesseurs', was given
1739 I  |           pointed to the Florentine traitor with his amiable smile and
1740 III|    disguising himself as a wretched tramp or a noble lord. He was
1741 I  |          crowd which seemed to have transferred all its curiosity to his
1742 I  |            the lady with whom I was travelling when you arrested me. I
1743 III|              but had lost it in her travels; that her husband knew nothing
1744 I  |              bade him follow: after traversing various corridors, cold
1745 IV |         third room, and ordered the treacherous priest to be confronted
1746 IV |          been condemned through the treachery of his own priest, who was
1747 II |  receiver-general of the clergy and treasurer of the States of Languedoc,
1748 VII|           arrested me at Liege, and treated me so badly all along the
1749 I  |            to know with whom one is treating." "Well, since you must
1750 V  |           by this calm behaviour. I trembled when I heard her give orders
1751 VI |          all her body involuntarily trembling. The doctor would have spoken
1752 IV |          meetings of the Council of Trent under Paul III, propounds
1753 II |            He thought it was only a trifling indisposition, and was not
1754 I  |             easily survive them and triumph over their destruction.
1755 I  |            the pupil of Rene and of Trophana, convicted of guilt. All
1756 V  |           you one question which is troubling me. Yesterday you gave me
1757 I  |            a gleam upon a miserable truckle-bed and left the rest of the
1758 V  |            him, and asked if he had truly prayed for her; and when
1759 VII|          till my head is cut off. I trust you will keep your word."~ ~"
1760 IV |           man who could be entirely trusted. The president, in fact,
1761 IV |          violent passion in a young Turkish gentleman, but her prudence
1762 VI |             limbs, the man gave two turns to a crank, which pushed
1763 IV |          similar design against the tutor of M. de Brinvillier's children.
1764 V  |        taken, and had lived another twenty years away from France,
1765 III|           was written. In this were twenty-seven pieces of paper on each
1766 VI |             was given; writhing and twisting, she said, with a deep groan, '
1767 V  |         time to time I saw her face twitching with anger, scorn, or ill-will.
1768 V  |        connection. No doubt she was unaware that M. de Rohan had received
1769 IV |            although death is as yet uncertain, I think it well that you
1770 VI |           just to add the horror of uncertainty to His rightful punishments.
1771 II |         worse and worse; he felt an unconquerable aversion for every kind
1772 II |          Her grief then broke forth uncontrolled. Her sobs and tears were
1773 VII|          top of the shirt, so as to uncover the shoulders, and finally
1774 VI |           noticed that her neck was uncovered, and took out her handkerchief
1775 V  |           said the prayer with much unction and piety. The prayer finished,
1776 V  |          for me, as I shall have to undergo the question as well as
1777 VI |          knew Penautier had had any understanding with Sainte-Croix about
1778 III|           Part III~It may be easily understood that a disclosure of this
1779 VI |             to cover her face, came undone, and several beads fell
1780 II |          vomiting, followed by such unendurable pain that he yielded to
1781 II |        Lesecq, whose death had most unexpectedly occurred; he had thereby
1782 III|       compliments to the lovely and unfortunate marquise. Desgrais had just
1783 III|        resumed her Parisian manner. Unhappily the charming abbe was to
1784 V  |       looked so gentle, whenever an unhappy thought crossed her mind
1785 IV |         persuaded that his mind was unhinged by the fear of death. Saint-Thomas
1786 I  |          and a young officer in the uniform of a cavalry captain jumped
1787 V  |          which is like the body; in uniting oneself with the Church,
1788 I  |        Sainte-Croix was put into an unlighted room by the gaoler, and
1789    | unlikely
1790 VII|       powders of different colours. Unluckily, the people who made these
1791 III|          description of strange and unnatural sins. In this woman there
1792 VII|             head erect. She obeyed, unresisting, all the time listening
1793 V  |            light-minded and fickle; unstable, paying no attention if
1794 VII|      indicated the presence of some unsuspected cavity. With picks and bars
1795 I  |          for her own meal. The girl unsuspiciously ate what her mistress gave
1796 V  |            fearlessness in the most untoward and unexpected events, an
1797 VI |          anything else, it would be untrue."~ ~The ordinary question
1798 II |         that is most sacred that no untruth is here asserted. If anyone
1799 V  |            Still, there was nothing unusually attractive in the face:
1800 II |            s door. Sainte-Croix was unwell, and could not even go out,
1801 III|            just returned from Rome, unwilling to pass through Liege without
1802 I  |             but only endeavoured to urge his horses to a gallop.
1803 IV |        president having so strongly urged it, on the ground that in
1804 II |           king's service soon to be vacant, which would cost 100,000
1805 II |         Beauce, to spend the Easter vacation. Lachaussee was with his
1806 II |             one of the councillor's valets had taken a dose of medicine
1807 IV |       Brinvilliers, he attacked its validity by bringing forward certain
1808 VII|           his silver and such other valuables as were to be found in this
1809 II |          Her sobs and tears were so vehement that her brothers' grief
1810 I  |          your men orders to let the vehicle go on." "First of all,"
1811 I  |            was wrapped in cloak and veil, and judging by the precautions
1812 III|             coagulated blood in the ventricle of the heart. Another experiment
1813 VII|           frontier. Then the owners ventured to take out the various
1814 V  |           that if I only gave you a verbal confession, I should never
1815 II |         case of her signature being verified, she intends to lodge an
1816 IV |          important. He felt he must verify this statement, and summoned
1817 III|          Martin, Poitevin, Olivier, Veron pere, the wife of Quesdon
1818 IV |           the door there were still verses in his well-known style
1819 III|           same liquid into a sanded vessel, and at the bottom there
1820 V  |        consolation of receiving the viaticum before I die?"~ ~"Madame,"
1821 I  |             their virtues and their vices were similar, and thus it
1822 II |            a Carmelite called Friar Victorin. The commissary opened the
1823 V  |           resume my place with more vigour to-morrow, and render you
1824 II |       filial tenderness, though the vilest projects were in her heart.
1825 II |      subjects; as before, a 'corpus vili' was taken. The marquise
1826 III|             induce Madame Mangot de Villarceaux, the lieutenant's widow,
1827 VII|           doctor faced the Hotel de Ville. Scarcely had they taken
1828 IV |           of death. Saint-Thomas of Villeneuve, Archbishop of Valencia,
1829 I  |           suddenly one of the doors violentiy pushed open, and a young
1830 I  |         their manner of life: their virtues and their vices were similar,
1831 I  |         character that he enjoyed a virtuous project as well as any plan
1832 I  |      controlling his agitation by a~visible effort.~ ~"Are you the Chevalier
1833 I  |         passing from a supernatural vision to a horrible reality. The
1834 II |             fire seemed to burn his vitals; and a treatment was ordered
1835 III|          and all that it touches is vitiated; it burns and scorches all
1836 VII|          who stood near, got such a vivid impression of her face that
1837 IV |         action: 'Non auditur perire volens'. He cited three instances,
1838 III|           morsel of mutton. The cat vomited for half an hour, and was
1839 I  |          him to Satan. Exili was no vulgar poisoner: he was a great
1840 IV |         Brinvilliers; that he would wager his head on it that they
1841 VII|           and put another round her waist, and yet another round her
1842 III|          the town, in some deserted walk, where there would be no
1843 II |        service of the sick, and she walked the hospitals and presented
1844 VII|             hidden; and tapping the walls, to make sure nothing had
1845 III|        Desgrais paid a visit to his wardrobe, and feeling that an abbe'
1846 IV |         Aubray's daughter had to be warned; and that there was a similar
1847 VI |             the letter was a letter wasted, and that was all. "The
1848 II |           bending over his furnace, watching the fatal preparation as
1849 III|           had given him some of the waters several times. Sainte-Croix
1850 III|           has been tried in all the ways, and can defy every experiment.
1851 II |           nobody supposed him to be wealthy, he had a steward called
1852 VI |            to me to think she would wear it after my death, and that
1853 I  |             of them of dull action, wearing out the victim so slowly
1854 V  |           same intention, I felt so weary that I asked if I might
1855 III|            with eight. At the third wedge Lachaussee said he was ready
1856 V  |            with her. The priest was weeping, but she was calm, and received
1857 V  |         promise, if I am guilty, to weigh your words. But one question,
1858 IV |            were still verses in his well-known style written by his hand.~ ~
1859 II |         custom in those days that a well-set-up young gentleman should want
1860 V  |           chestnut hair, a rounded, well-shaped face, blue eyes very pretty
1861 IV |             obdurate judges present wept when they heard him. When
1862 IV |             slice of mutton, rather wet, which she ate, afterwards
1863    | whence
1864    | whenever
1865    | wherein
1866 I  |          the arrest of Sainte-Croix wheresoever the bearer might chance
1867 V  |          the damned, and the flames wherewith she is burned are even as
1868 VII|          out on every side with his whip. So they had to stop a few
1869 VII|         direction, so that he might whisper in her ear -- that is, the
1870    | whither
1871 VII|      apology. ~ ~ ~"I confess that, wickedly and for revenge, I poisoned
1872 II |            made him known even more widely. Lachaussee was one of the
1873 III|             the wife of Quesdon the wigmaker, be summoned to appear before
1874 II |          brother of Charles VII, to wipe his hands on during a game
1875 VII|          before him the executioner wiping his face. "Well, sir," said
1876 IV |             did the tribunal in its wisdom recognise the importance
1877 IV |            thousand pistoles. Other wise she would have had him assassinated.
1878 III|           himself attractive by his wit and his audacity, so much
1879 IV |        Briancourt, one of the chief witnesses against her. On that very ,
1880 V  |          sort of uneasiness; when I woke we prayed together, and
1881 II |           the work of those devoted women who are pledged to the service
1882 II |        knowing that her husband was wont to busy himself with dark
1883 II |         poisons proved fatal to the workers themselves. The apothecary
1884 V  |          have. We have already been working for thirteen or fourteen
1885 VI |             the ground and eaten by worms, whether it is drawn on
1886 II |      contents, I swear by the God I worship and by all that is most
1887 IV |         eight persons, who could he worsted by five men; that in the
1888 III|     instrument with which she could wound or kill herself. The marquise,
1889 VI |         feet, are they not torn and wounded? Have not my executioners
1890 IV |             circumstances: the poor wretches, half dead, fell at the
1891 V  |            you."~ ~"Ah!" she cried, wringing her hands, "you promised
1892 V  |            already she was a little wrinkled, and looked older than her
1893 III|           him, and in consequence a writ was issued against Lachaussee,
1894 IV |             information against the writer on the strength of this
1895 VI |          Yet again water was given; writhing and twisting, she said,
1896 V  |      purification? Now I see all my wrong-doings, and the worst of all is
1897 V  |       confessions that could not be wrung from her by the threats
1898 III|            that town, wherein Louis xiv demanded the guilty woman
1899 VII|          body; grant, O God, that I yield up to Thee my soul, that
1900 V  |           When I am on the point of yielding up my soul to God, I wish