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Updated: June 27, 2025
He was no self-righteous braggart, but a very rigid judge of himself, who, close by the headsman's block that ended his life, said: 'I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith. 'Put on the whole armour of God, and when the time comes to put it off, you will have a peaceful assurance as far removed from despair as it is from boasting.
Throughout this lonely wilderness the furious barking of a watch-dog suddenly resounds, to which all the dogs in the distant village instantly begin to respond. Two men are fumbling at the latch of the headsman's door, and the chained dog within the courtyard, scenting a stranger, gives him a hostile greeting.
"You accursed villain!" cried an old peasant, "let him have the rope! String him up and let him swing!" "No, my friends, we must not kill him, we have need of him, he must live because he knows so much." "Then let him out with it." "Oh, he will talk presently," said the headsman's 'prentice, and folding his arms he stood right in front of the defenceless wretch.
The early risers could see through the thick mists the headsman's apprentices, in their pointed caps, moving like hellish shadows about the burning fire, in which they were heating their terrible tools red-hot, and warming their hands the while, to prevent them from growing stiff.
Not even the Holy One and the Just could give me that. I tell you I have eaten of the apple of the knowledge of good and evil yes, the very core I have eaten. I have the taste of innocent blood upon my lips. I have seen the axe fall, the axe which I put into the headsman's hands. I am condemned, and that justly.
I will tell you what it is, youngster; why should I kill you? I can see a red line round your neck the guillotine is waiting for you. Yes, you will end in the Place de Grève. You are the headsman's property! there is no escape for you. You belong to a vendita of the Carbonari. You are plotting against the Government." "You did not tell me that," cried the Piedmontese, turning to Léon.
The Countess de Soissons sickened as she remembered that the woman whom she had seen executed was one of high position, no less a personage than the beautiful and fascinating Marquise de Brinvilliers. Neither her rank, her charms, nor the strenuous efforts of her powerful friends, had been adequate to save her from the headsman's axe.
They make the consonants of tight run, and it would be a 'tight run' for you to keep up such a speed. So 1649, the date of the execution of Charles I., may be remembered by the word sharp, which recalls the headsman's axe.
"That is a dreadful barrier to our wishes! Were the boy anything but a headsman's child! I do not think thou couldst object, Melchior, had he merely come of a hind, or of some common follower of thy family?" "It were far better that he should have come of one like ourselves, Gaetano.
"And are you two able to carry on the business? for I suppose there are all sorts of things to be done?" "Good heart alive! The less you say about the headsman's trade the better." "But why should I not talk about it? It is a regular profession, is it not, like any other? And just as respectable too, eh? Nay, it is more profitable than most trades, because there is less of competition in it.
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