bourreau's

Updated: June 2, 2025

But worse was coming; for, though tied, she came up and cried 'Help! help! and I, forgetting all, and hearing a woman's voice cry 'Help! was for leaping in to save her; and had surely done it, but the boatman and Cul de Jatte clung round me, and in a moment the bourreau's man, that waited in a boat, came and entangled his hooked pole in her long hair, and so thrust her down and ended her.

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth