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La Es at the moment when the outcasts assailed the church

Soon the ever-increasing uproar around the edifice, and the uneasy bleating of her goat which had been awakened, had roused her from her slumbers She had sat up, she had listened, she had looked; then, terrified by the light and noise, she had rushed from her cell to see The aspect of the Place, the vision which wasin it, the disorder of that nocturnal assault, that hideous crowd, leaping like a cloud of frogs, half seen in the gloo of that hoarseeach other in the darkness like the meteors which streak the misty surfaces of marshes, this whole scene produced upon her the effect of a mysterious battle between the phantoms of the witches' sabbath and the stone monsters of the church Imbued from her very infancy with the superstitions of the Boheht the strange beings peculiar to the night, in their deeds of witchcraft Then she ran in terror to cower in her cell, asking of her pallet sohtmare

But little by little the first vapors of terror had been dissipated; frons of reality, she felt herself besieged not by spectres, but by hued its character She had dreamed of the possibility of a popular mutiny to tear her fro life, hope, Phoebus, as ever present in her future, the extreht cut off, no support, her abandonhts and a thousand others overwhelmed her She fell upon her knees, with her head on her bed, her hands clasped over her head, full of anxiety and trean to entreat with sobs, ood Christian God, and to pray to our Lady, her hostess For even if one believes in nothing, there are ion of the temple which is nearest at hand

She re in truth, , chilled by the ever-closer breath of that furious norant of as being plotted, as being done, what they wanted, but foreseeing a terrible issue

In thenear her She turned round Two men, one of whom carried a lantern, had just entered her cell She uttered a feeble cry