The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . nder guard of a sheriffs officer, she asked continually : Is it not over ? Will they kill me ? The surgeon, and some charitable people whostood by her, were urgent in reassuring her. Butonly the king could grant her her life, Fdvret,the advocate, drew up a petition which was signedby many notables of Dijon, and carried to hisMajesty. Festivities were being held at the courtat that moment on account of the marriage ofHenrietta - Maria of France with the King ofEngland. On the score of this marriage, Louis theJust granted the favour asked. He gave a full pardo
The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . nder guard of a sheriffs officer, she asked continually : Is it not over ? Will they kill me ? The surgeon, and some charitable people whostood by her, were urgent in reassuring her. Butonly the king could grant her her life, Fdvret,the advocate, drew up a petition which was signedby many notables of Dijon, and carried to hisMajesty. Festivities were being held at the courtat that moment on account of the marriage ofHenrietta - Maria of France with the King ofEngland. On the score of this marriage, Louis theJust granted the favour asked. He gave a full pardon to the poor girl, deeming,as the letters of remission said, that she had sufferedtortures which equalled, nay even surpassed, thepenalty of her sentence. H61ene Gillet, restored to life, withdrew into aconvent at Brest where she practised up to the timeof her death, the strictest piety. Such, said thelittle official, is the true history of Helene Gillet,as every one in Dijon knows. Do you not find itentertaining, Monsieur IAbb^ ?. XX JUSTICE {continued) LAS ! said my good master, Icannot stomach my food. Myheart is a§ sick at this horriblescene, which you have described socold-bloodedly, sir, as at the sightof this servant of Madame Josses whom they aretaking to be hanged, when something better mightbe made of her. But, Monsieur, retorted the beadle, have Inot told you that this girl has stolen from hermistress ; and do you not wish thieves to behanged ? Certainly, said my good master, it iscustomary ; and as the force of custom is irre-sistible, I pay no attention to it in my ordinarycourse of life. In the same way Seneca, the philo-sopher, who nevertheless inclined to mildness, puttogether treatises of consummate elegance, even while 19s 196 THE OPINIONS OF near to him, at Rome, slaves were crucified for thesmallest fault, as we see in the case of the slaveMithridates, who died, his hands nailed to thecross; merely guilty of having blasphemed thedivinity of his master, t
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