tim's hands, and
then set on fire so as to form a pair of five-flamed candelabra; of a
case turning on a pivot in which a man who refused to be converted was
sometimes shut up, the case being then made to revolve rapidly till the
victim lost consciousness; and lastly of fetters used when taking
prisoners from one town to another, and brought to such perfection, that
when they were on the prisoner could neither stand nor sit.

Even the most fervent panegyrists of Abbe Duchayla spoke of him with
bated breath, and, when he himself looked into his own heart and recalled
how often he had applied to the body the power to bind and loose which
God had only given him over the soul, he was seized with strange tremors,
and falling on his knees with folded hands and bowed head he remained for
hours wrapt in thought, so motionless that were it not for the drops of
sweat which stood on his brow he might have been taken for a marble
statue of prayer over a tomb.

Moreover, this priest by virtue of the powers with which he was invested,
and feeling that he had the authority of M. de Baville, intendant of
Languedoc, and M. de Broglie, commander of the troops, behind him, had
done other terrible things.

He had separated children from father and mother, and had shut them up in
religious houses, where they had been subjected to such severe
chastisement, by way of making them do penance for the heresy of their
parents, that many of them died under it.

He had forced his way into the chamber of the dying, not to bring
consolation but menaces; and bending over the bed, as if to keep back the
Angel of Death, he had repeated the words of the terrible decree which
provided that in case of the death of a Huguenot without conversion, his
memory should be persecuted, and his body, denied Christian burial,
should be drawn on hurdles out of the city, and cast on a dungheap.

Lastly, when with pious love children tried to shield their parents in
the death-agony from his threats, or dead from his justice, by carrying
them, dead or dying, to some refuge in which they might hope to draw
their last breath in peace or to obtain Christian burial, he declared
that anyone who should open his door hospitably to such disobedience was
a traitor to religion, although among the heathen such pity would have
been deemed worthy of an altar.

Such was the man raised up to punish, who went on his way, preceded by
terror, accompanied by torture, and followed by d