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of fresh victims. They “spared no house, great

or small, not even the colleges of the

University of Paris.... Morin made all the city

quake.... It was a reign of terror.”—Ibid., b. 4,

ch. 10.

The victims were put to death with cruel

torture, it being specially ordered that the

fire should be lowered in order to prolong

their agony. But they died as conquerors.

Their constancy was unshaken, their peace

unclouded. Their persecutors, powerless to

move their inflexible firmness, felt

themselves defeated. “The scaffolds were

distributed over all the quarters of Paris, and

the burnings followed on successive days, the

design being to spread the terror of heresy by

spreading the executions. The advantage,

however, in the end, remained with the

gospel. All Paris was enabled to see what