the execution of deborah began in a manner similar to many others , in that as the morning light fell down on the square before the doors of the cathedral of saint-michel all the town collected there with the wine sellers making their profits , and the old comtesse , somberly dressed , coming forward with the two trembling children , both dark-haired and dark-skinned with the stamp of the spanish blood on them , but with a height and delicacy of bone that betrayed the blood of their mother , and very much frightened , as they were taken high to the very top of the viewing stand before the jail , and facing the pyre .