The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . -cating girl passed on with her companions to herfate. High mass having been performed, the pre-liminaries to the terrible concluding scene are trans-acted. The sun descends, the Angelus is rung fromthe belfrys, the vespers are chanted, the multitudeproceeds to the place of suffering. It is a squareplatform of stone in the outskirts of the city, atwhose four corners stand mis-shapen statues ofprophets. Those who repent at the last momenthave the privilege of being strangled before effigies and bones of the dead are first given tothe
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . -cating girl passed on with her companions to herfate. High mass having been performed, the pre-liminaries to the terrible concluding scene are trans-acted. The sun descends, the Angelus is rung fromthe belfrys, the vespers are chanted, the multitudeproceeds to the place of suffering. It is a squareplatform of stone in the outskirts of the city, atwhose four corners stand mis-shapen statues ofprophets. Those who repent at the last momenthave the privilege of being strangled before effigies and bones of the dead are first given tothe flames. Last perish the living victims, the kinghimself lighting the fagots ; their constancy is somarked that they are believed to be sustained by thedevil. Night deepens ; the glare of the fiames fallsupon the cowl of the Capuchin, the cord of the 164 THE STORY OF THE JEWS. Franciscan—upon corselet and plume—everywhereupon faces fierce with fanaticism. In the back-ground rises the gloomy city—all alight as if withthe lurid fire of ^^r
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