The other examined the salts and made a flippant remark.

The alchemist, furious, threw himself upon him, struck him with a hammer, and had to be overpowered and carried in a strait-jacket to Saint Anne, pending investigation.
"In the sixteenth century, in Luxemburg, initiates were roasted in iron cages.

The following century, in Germany, they were clothed in rags and hanged on gilded gibbets.

Now that they are tolerated and left in peace they go mad.

Decidedly, fate is against them," Durtal concluded.
He rose and went to answer a ring at the door.