“M. de Richelieu is working hard to purify Languedoc,” he remarked.
“What was her punishment?” asked Luc.
“An easy one,” returned the priest—“she will be hanged.”
Luc turned his head towards the speaker.
“Because she is a heretic?” he asked slowly.
“What else?”
The angry blood stained the Marquis’s delicate face. He knew these things happened, but he had never before been brought close to them.
“You make me feel ashamed of my humanity,” he said.
“Are you a Protestant?” demanded the priest.
“No.”