The deputy viscount was an officer of considerable standing; he was present, as the representative of His Majesty, at meetings of the Court of Chief Pleas, at the deliberations of the Cohue, and at executions. Lethierry looked Dr. Hérode in the eye. “I am against hanging,” he said. The reverend doctor had hitherto spoken in the same level tone, but now his voice took on a new and sharper intonation: “Mess Lethierry, the death penalty has been divinely ordained. God has given man the sword. It is written: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
