The executioner waits.

Just then the executioner approach, ed.

In this disguisement he was brought into the hall (L.'s favourite state-room), where awaited him the whole number of his school-fellows, whose joint lessons and sports he was thenceforth to share no more; the awful presence of the steward, to be seen for the last time; of the executioner beadle, clad in his state robe for the occasion; and of two faces more, of direr import, because never but in these extremities visible.

Here she knew the executioner dwelt; and she tapped with her fingers on the panes, and called: "Come out, come out!

[The Executioner grips the Prophet by the arm.] Voice-of-the-Gods: The gods have lied!

His gaiety and propension to jesting did not forsake him in his last moments; when he laid his head upon the block, he bad the executioner stay till he had removed aside his beard, saying, "that that had never committed treason."