There was a sort of patient, humorous endurance in his expression which indicated that he would
go to the stake if need be, but would keep on looking pleasant until he really had to begin squirming.
Here this man will
go to the stake for me, and I find him delighted at having it
"I would
go to the stake in my belief that the Prime Minister is committed totally to this package," he said.
Swan Hunter doesn't have to
go to the stake over this disappointment; Kroese believes it can recover and continue to retain a significant workforce.
"There are many Liberals who would rather
go to the stake than be seen as the playthings of the Labour Party.
But Cauchon was in league with the English; he burned the letter, and later told Joan that the Pope said that her voices were from the devil and not God, so that she would have to
go to the stake. Before her execution she was denied confession and communion and her crucifix was taken away from her; Cauchon said that witches were not allowed crucifixes.