anted to add. So they continued,
the doctor making her pause now and then in the narration of the heavier
offences to recite an act of contrition.

After an hour and a half they came to tell her to go down. The registrar
was waiting to read her the sentence. She listened very calmly,
kneeling, only moving her head; then, with no alteration in her voice,
she said, "In a moment: we will have one word more, the doctor and I, and
then I am at your disposal." She then continued to dictate the rest of
her confession. When she reached the end, she begged him to offer a
short prayer with her, that God might help her to appear with such
becoming contrition before her judges as should atone for her scandalous
effrontery. She then took up her cloak, a prayer-book which Father
Chavigny had left with her, and followed the concierge, who led her to
the torture chamber, where her sentence was to be read.

First, there was an examination which lasted five hours. The marquise
told all she had promised to tell, denying that she had any accomplices,
and affirming that she knew nothing of the composition of the poisons she
had administered, and nothing of their antidotes. When this was done, and
the judges saw that they could extract nothing further, they signed to
the registrar to read the sentence. She stood to hear it: it was as
follows:

"That by the finding of the court, d'Aubray de Brinvilliers is convicted
of causing the death by poison of Maitre Dreux d'Aubray, her father, and
of the two Maitres d'Aubray, her brothers, one a civil lieutenant, the
other a councillor to the Parliament, also of attempting the life of
Therese d'Aubray, her sister; in punishment whereof the court has
condemned and does condemn the said d'Aubray de Brinvilliers to make the
rightful atonement before the great gate of the church of Paris, whither
she shall be conveyed in a tumbril, barefoot, a rope on her neck, holding
in her hands a burning torch two pounds in weight; and there on her knees
she shall say and declare that maliciously, with desire for revenge and
seeking their goods, she did poison her father, cause to be poisoned her
two brothers, and attempt the life of her sister, whereof she doth
repent, asking pardon of God, of the king, and of the judges; and when
this is done, she shall be conveyed and carried in the same tumbril to
the Place de Greve of this town, there to have her head cut off on a
scaffold to be set up for the purpose at