I shall see if Father la Chaise can find an answer to that.

It is hard to be threatened with eternal flames because one will not ruin one's kingdom.
Eternal torment! I have seen the face of a man who had been in the Bastille, for fifteen years.

It was like a dreadful book, with a scar or a wrinkle to mark every hour of that death in life.

But Eternity!" He shuddered, and his eyes were filled with the horror of his thought.
The higher motives had but little power over his soul, as those about him had long discovered, but he was ever ready to wince at the image of the terrors to come.
"Why should you think of such things, sire ?" said the lady, in her rich, soothing voice.

"What have you to fear, you who have been the first son of the Church ?" "You think that I am safe, then ?" "Surely, sire." "But I have erred, and erred deeply.