She appears to have lived to destroy her fellow-creatures, and to have met her doom with the most undaunted courage.

What a career! and what an end! (1) "The foolish people in Wurzburg are at a loss to find motives for some of the murders she committed, and try to get out of the difficulty by declaring that she must have been a homicidal maniac.

That is not _my_ explanation.

I can understand the murderess becoming morally intoxicated with the sense of her own tremendous power.

A mere human creature--only a woman, Julie!--armed with the means of secretly dealing death with her, wherever she goes--meeting with strangers who displease her, looking at them quietly, and saying to herself, "I doom you to die, before you are a day older"-- is there no explanation, here, of some of Zwanziger's poisonings which are incomprehensible to commonplace minds?
"I put this view, in talking of the trial, to the military commandant a few days since.