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This conclusive observation appeared to dissipate all the doubts of Gringoire and the other sceptics in the audience

"You have the docu's advocate, as he took his seat; "you can consult the testimony of Phoebus de Châteaupers"

At that na Gringoire with horror recognized la Esracefully braided and spangled with sequins, hung in disorder; her lips were blue, her hollow eyes were terrible Alas!

"Phoebus!" she said, in bewilderneurs! before you kill me, tell ue, woman," replied the president, "that is no affair of ours"

"Oh! forher beautiful emaciated hands; and the sound of her chains in contact with her dress, was heard

"Well!" said the king's advocate roughly, "he is dying Are you satisfied?"

The unhappy girl fell back on her criure

The president bent down to a own, a chain on his neck and a wand in his hand

"Bailiff, bring in the second accused"

All eyes turned towards a soire, gave passage to a pretty goat with horns and hoofs of gold The elegant beast halted for a h, perched on the summit of a rock, it had before its eyes an iirl, and leaping over the table and the head of a clerk, in two bounds it was at her knees; then it rolled gracefully on itsa word or a caress; but the accused relance

"Eh, why--'tis nize the two perfectly!"

Jacques Charentleoat" He was, in fact, the second cri ainst an ani others in the accounts of the provost's office for 1466, a curious detail concerning the expenses of the trial of Gillet-Soulart and his sow, "executed for their de is there, the cost of the pens in which to place the sow, the five hundred bundles of brushwood purchased at the port of Morsant, the three pints of wine and the bread, the last repast of the victim fraternally shared by the executioner, down to the eleven days of guard and food for the sow, at eight deniers parisis each Sometimes, they went even further than anine and of Louis le Débonnaire impose severe penalties on fiery phantoms which presume to appear in the air