Danger of driving the vanquished to despair.
Let fall from the height of his superiority a few of those disdainful words which brand as deeply as a red-hot iron.
The more absurd the reports, the more credence did they gain.
....crowd of prejudices, which are sacred to the vulgar.
Fourneau having saluted Grandier, proceeded to carry out his orders, whereupon a judge said it was not sufficient to shave the body of the prisoner, but that his nails must also be torn out, lest the devil should hide beneath them. Grandier looked at the speaker with an expression of unutterable pity, and held out his hands to Fourneau; but Forneau put them gently aside, and said he would do nothing of the kind, even were the order given by the cardinal-duke himself.
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