He believed they were come to conduct him to the scaffold; so that when he saw merely and simply, instead of the executioner he expected, only his commissary of the preceding evening, attended by his clerk, he was ready to embrace them both.
Azt hitte, most jönnek érte, hogy vérpadra vigyék, s amikor meglátta, hogy a hóhér helyett mindössze csupán a tegnapi biztos és az írnok jön érte, kis híján a nyakukba ugrott örömében.