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At that moment the sound of jaws in the act of mastication, which proceeded from beneath the furnace, struck Charmolue's uneasy ear

"What's that?" he inquired

It was the scholar, who, ill at ease, and greatly bored in his hiding-place, had succeeded in discovering there a stale crust and a triangle ofthe whole without cerery, he reat deal of noise, and he accented each ly, which startled and alarmed the procurator

"'Tis a cat ofherself under there with a mouse," This explanation satisfied Charmolue

"In fact, reat philosophers have their familiar anienio est~,--for there is no place that hath not its spirit'"

But Dom Claude, who stood in terror of some new freak on the part of Jehan, reures on the façade to study together, and the two quitted the cell, to the accoan to seriously fear that his knee would acquire the imprint of his chin