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"'Tis very difficult to explain," replied the poet "It is a superstition My wife is, according to what an old thief, who is called a or a lost child, which is the sa She wears on her neck an amulet which, it is affirmed, will cause her to meet her parents soirl loses hers Hence it follows that both of us remain very virtuous"

"So," resumed Claude, whose brow cleared more and more, "you believe, Master Pierre, that this creature has not been approached by any ainst a superstition? She has got that in her head I assuredly esteem as a rarity this nunlike prudery which is preserved untaht into subjection But she has three things to protect her: the Duke of Egypt, who has taken her under his safeguard, reckoning, perchance, on selling her to soular veneration, like a Notre-Danard, which the buxom dame alears about her, in some nook, in spite of the ordinances of the provost, and which one causes to fly out into her hands by squeezing her waist 'Tis a proud wasp, I can tell you!"

The archdeacon pressed Gringoire with questions

La Esoire, was an inoffensive and char creature, pretty, with the exception of a pout which was peculiar to her; a naïve and passionate da; not yet aware of the difference between a man and a woman, even in her drea, noise, the open air; a sort of wo in a ind She owed this nature to the wandering life which she had always led Gringoire had succeeded in learning that, while a mere child, she had traversed Spain and Catalonia, even to Sicily; he believed that she had even been taken by the caravan of Zingari, of which she foriers, a country situated in Achaia, which country adjoins, on one side Albania and Greece; on the other, the Sicilian Sea, which is the road to Constantinople The Boheiers, in his quality of chief of the White Moors One thing is certain, that la Es, by way of Hungary Froe ideas, which e as motley as her costume, half Parisian, half African However, the people of the quarters which she frequented loved her for her gayety, her daintiness, her lively s She believed herself to be hated, in all the city, by but two persons, of whom she often spoke in terror: the sacked nun of the Tour-Roland, a villanous recluse who cherished soypsies, and who cursed the poor dancer every time that the latter passed before her ; and a priest, who never htened her