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When she re-entered the audience hall, pale and lieneral murmur of pleasure On the part of the audience there was the feeling of iratified which one experiences at the theatre at the end of the last entr'acte of the comedy, when the curtain rises and the conclusion is about to begin On the part of the judges, it was the hope of getting their suppers sooner

The little goat also bleated with joy He tried to run towards his ht was fully set in The candles, whose nuht, that the walls of the hall could not be seen The shadows there enveloped all objects in a sort of es alone could be di hail, they could see a vaguely white point standing out against the soed herself to her place When Charisterial manner in his own, he seated hi too much self-complacency at his success,--"The accused has confessed all"

"Boheirl," the president continued, "have you avowed all your deeds of ic, prostitution, and assassination on Phoebus de Châteaupers"

Her heart contracted She was heard to sob a you like," she replied feebly, "but killin the ecclesiastical courts," said the president, "the chae"

Master Charan to read, with erated accentuation of the pleader, an oration in Latin, wherein all the proofs of the suit were piled up in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked with quotations froret that we are not able to offer to our readers this remarkable piece The orator pronounced it with marvellous action Before he had finished the exordiu from his brow, and his eyes from his bead

All at once, in the lance, ordinarily so gentle and even stupid, beca

"Gentlemen," he exclaimed (this time in French, for it was not in his copy book), "Satan is so mixed up in this affair, that here he is present at our debates, and , he pointed to the little goat, who, on seeing Charht it appropriate to do the sa to the best of his ability, with his forepaws and his bearded head the pathetic panto's procurator in the ecclesiastical court This was, if the reader remembers, one of his prettiest accoreat effect The goat's hoofs were tied, and the king's procurator resumed the thread of his eloquence