They rise solemnly, and intone the
sentenceantiphonally. I tell my folks they must be very careful. How do you know
that the spirit which appears to youis an archangel?
There you go with your self-conceit, the same as
ever! After twelve, back to the only place fit for the likesof me. You dont know:
you havntseen: it is so easy to talk when you dont know.
A sudden darkness blots out the walls of the room
as they allspring to their feet in consternation.
They are going out when Warwick comes in, meeting
them.
What would St Catherine and St Margaret say if the
farmgirl was cocked up beside them! There is some doubt whether your people have
observed theforms of law, my lord.
And they all say Yes, Parson: we all know you are
akind man, and would not harm a fly. What would St Catherine and St Margaret say if
the farmgirl was cocked up beside them! I am a hotheadedfool; and I shall be damned
to all eternity for it.
The English havebuilt it too high for me to get
near her and make the death easier. The assessors cannot kelp smiling, especially as
the joke isagainst Courcelles.
Only the Bishop andthe Inquisitor are left in the
court. Thus its occupant is in full view fromthe foot. I was no beauty: I was always
arough one: a regular soldier.
I who am of the dead, testified that day that
youwere innocent.
Thats my allowance for my one good
action.
Your dead body did not feel the spade and the sewer
as mylive body felt the fire.
The day off was dullat first, like a wet
Sunday.
I am no better than Judas: I will hang myself. It
is solemnly declared that her judges were full ofcorruption, cozenage, fraud, and
malice.
In all the years of your life did you do onlyone
good action? The execution is not in our hands, my lord; but itis desirable that we
should witness the end.
You think that life is nothing but not being
stonedead. I am not Charles the Good, nor Charles theWise, nor Charles the Bold.
They excommunicated my dead body: they dug it up and flung it intothe common
sewer.
Imust return to Rome for fresh instructions. Oh, do
not come back: you must not come back. Brian, you young blackguard, where are you? A
sudden darkness blots out the walls of the room as they allspring to their feet in
consternation. I congratulate you on having invented a mostextraordinarily comic
dress. Pardon me: I am here on serious business, and cannotengage in frivolous
discussions. Justice, long delayed, is at lasttriumphant. I am glad they have not
forgotten my horse.