The Devils Page #6

What sort of a trick

have you played on us?.

Oh, Reverend, sir, what sort of

a trick are you playing on us?.

Have fun.

Goodbye, ladies. I am very pleased

to have been of some service.

Come along, my darlings.

...so is the Lord within thee.

Te Deum!

I know I am a weak, bad man.

But after this journey,

I may find the strength to change,

to summon towards myself

the goodwill and wisdom

that lies in the people of Loudun.

The King has secured our stones.

Now we have to show him that

the city is the strength

that lives in the hearts of men,

that greed and dissension

will never destroy her.

And with God's help,

we will change her walls to terraces

that have the colour of stars.

Save yourself, my daughter, save us all!

Dispel your evil seducer forever,

reclaim his guilt to the world.

Give us peace! Give us peace!

Yield not to me

but to the minister of Christ,

of His power urges thee,

who subjugated thee to...

You have turned the house of the Lord

into a circus!

And its servants into clowns.

You have seduced the people

in order to destroy them!

You have perverted the innocent.

And was not that innocent child,

Madame de Brou

perverted by your blasphemous

nuptial Mass?.

It wasn't blasphemy!

We were married without guilt

in the eyes of God!

He is witness to our love.

I have prostituted myself!

For Grandier. I have prostituted myself.

He promised to make me

a princess in the Devil's court.

He took me to the witches' Sabbath.

He defiled my body. He was naked.

He bears the five marks of the Evil One,

the first mark is on the shoulder.

The second on the tongue,

the third on the rump,

the fourth, the fifth on his

right testicle and his left testicle.

If no blood flows

when these areas are cut or pricked,

this is the true sign of the Devil!

No!

Call me vain and proud,

the greatest sinner ever

to walk on God's earth.

But Satan's boy I could never be!

I haven't the humility.

I know what I have sown

and I am prepared for what I shall reap.

But do you, Reverend Mother,

know what you must give

to have your wish about me fulfilled?.

I will tell you.

Your immortal soul to eternal damnation.

May God have mercy on you.

Seize him!

- On what charge?.

- Heresy!

Grandier is innocent!

This inquisition has been designed

to implicate an innocent man!

- Arrest those men!

- Evil!

Evil! He is the Devil's filth.

He is a fornicator of women!

This is a plot.

Stop! We must stop them!

A scheme to take him from us!

And when he's gone, to take our city!

Our freedom!

For the sake of Christ,

don't stand there.

Help him!

Forgive her!

Forgive her!

She has been broken by the priests!

No blood where the tongue was pricked.

True sign of the Devil.

Ladies!

Please.

"This said priest, Urbain Grandier,

did debauch and defile my person

"six times between midnight and dawn

"on the night of May the 13th,

in the year of our Lord, 1634."

And remember, Sister,

any attempt to retract

all or part of this statement

at any time will result in you being

condemned, not only in the next world,

but also in this one, as well.

Cut her down! Cut her down!

Is she dead?. Is she dead?.

She's still breathing.

This is Grandier's work, my child.

You'll never be free of him

until we've brought him to justice.

Oh, Christ...

Oh, Christ...

I want...

Oh, God, I need...

I thought I had found you.

And now you have forsaken me.

The Baron Laubardemont tells me you're

ready to confess again, my dear Sister.

Yes, I want to make amends.

Grandier.

I've wronged an innocent man, Father.

My poor deluded child.

It is not you speaking,

but the devils within you,

trying to protect Grandier.

The exorcisms have failed.

We must resort to other measures.

Did you sleep well?.

With all this noise?.

There are thousands out there,

where would you expect them

to get the beds from?.

Besides, they're all too excited.

About what?.

Oh, your execution.

I have not been tried yet.

All right. Have it your own way.

Your trial, then.

You are going to be tortured.

How is Madeleine?.

I'm told she's putting the last touches

to her confession of your mutual sins.

Good.

Then I shall confirm her accusations.

Have you thought of the pain to come?.

It cannot be different

to the pain I have seen.

True.

Except of course, in its location.

It will be in you

rather than your congregation.

I dread pain.

Well, perhaps the judges

will think it unnecessary.

Or perhaps, as one who has sustained

so much pleasure,

you will take to pain, its ugly sister,

without the usual noises of complaint.

I shall scream and admit to everything.

Oh, come, Grandier. A man like you?.

All the more for that.

Why don't you offer up your pain to God?.

You've lived by your senses,

obviously you can die by them.

I will try, Baron.

I hope you will pray for me.

Oh, I will, Father.

I will.

And I will pray for you.

You have one consolation.

Hell will hold no surprises for you.

May God have mercy on us both.

The evidence against you is irrefutable.

Your house has been searched.

Various manuscripts have been found.

Amongst them is this pamphlet,

directed against His Eminence,

Cardinal Richelieu.

You have also roused the temper

of the populace

against His Eminence by denouncing him

in a public place.

Notebooks

and letters of a more

personal kind were also discovered.

A treatise on celibacy

in the priesthood was found.

The man appears to have been in love

when this was written.

We have also the written confession

of his wife.

What have you done with her?.

Too distressed by realisation

of her guilt to give personal testimony

that she went through

a mock marriage ceremony

with the accused

in his own church of St Peter's.

It was a real ceremony.

A simple act of committal

done with my heart

in the hope of coming to God

through the love of a woman.

We have also letters from women

who he did not marry.

One of which appears to suggest

that he committed sexual intercourse

under the very roof

of the church itself!

For the love of Jesus Christ!

If you wish to destroy me,

then destroy me.

Accuse me of exposing political

chicanery and the evils of the State

and I will plead guilty.

But what man can face arraignments

on the idiocy of youth?.

Old love letters

and other pathetic objects

stuffed in drawers

or in the bottom of cupboards.

Things kept for a day

when he would need to be reminded

that he was once loved.

To continue the evidence,

my lords,

we have heard testimony

from sober citizens,

saying how they were bewitched by you

into attending a black Mass.

We have heard real devils

speaking through the mouths

of Ursuline nuns,

swearing again and again

that the accused is a sorcerer!

And since, when duly constrained

by Holy Exorcist,

the Devil is bound to tell the truth,

it follows that...

Lies!

Lies and heresy!

The Devil is a liar

and the father of lies.

If the Devil's evidence

is to be accepted,

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