His ferocity does not remain merely carnal; it becomes spiritual.

He wishes to make the child suffer both in body and soul.

By a thoroughly Satanic cheat he deceives gratitude, dupes affection, and desecrates love.

At a leap he passes the bounds of human infamy and lands plump in the darkest depth of Evil.
"He contrives this: One of the unfortunate children is brought into his chamber, and hanged, by Bricqueville, Prelati, and de Sille, to a hook fixed into the wall.

Just at the moment when the child is suffocating, Gilles orders him to be taken down and the rope untied.