[The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Musketeers 65 TRIAL 11/13
The priest stole the sacred vases, and sold them; but as they were preparing to escape together, they were both arrested. "Eight days later she had seduced the son of the jailer, and escaped. The young priest was condemned to ten years of imprisonment, and to be branded.
I was executioner of the city of Lille, as this woman has said.
I was obliged to brand the guilty one; and he, gentlemen, was my brother! "I then swore that this woman who had ruined him, who was more than his accomplice, since she had urged him to the crime, should at least share his punishment.
I suspected where she was concealed.
I followed her, I caught her, I bound her; and I imprinted the same disgraceful mark upon her that I had imprinted upon my poor brother. "The day after my return to Lille, my brother in his turn succeeded in making his escape; I was accused of complicity, and was condemned to remain in his place till he should be again a prisoner.
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