He would be so glad to be able to appear pure and guiltless before the tribunal of his God! Therefore he needs very much heretical blood.

But hark--the hour strikes which summons me to the royal chamber! There has been enough of the queen's laughing and chit-chat.

We will now endeavor to banish the smile forever from her face.

She is a heretic; and it is a pious work, well pleasing to God, if we plunge her headlong into ruin!" "May God be with your highness, and assist you by His grace, that you may accomplish this sublime work!" "God will be with us, my son, since for Him it is that we labor and harass ourselves.

To His honor and praise we bring these misbelieving heretics to the stake, and make the air re-echo with the agonizing shrieks of those who are racked and tortured.