"Why did you rob me of my last consolation?
I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now." "And do you also believe that I am so very, very wicked?
Do you also join with my enemies to crush me, to condemn me as a murderer ?" Her voice was suffocated with sobs.
"Rise, my poor girl," said Elizabeth; "why do you kneel, if you are innocent?
I am not one of your enemies, I believed you guiltless, notwithstanding every evidence, until I heard that you had yourself declared your guilt.

That report, you say, is false; and be assured, dear Justine, that nothing can shake my confidence in you for a moment, but your own confession." "I did confess, but I confessed a lie.

I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins.

The God of heaven forgive me! Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was.

He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued obdurate.