The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Book 5 Chapter 1 Page 14

internal eruption; that a wound caused by artillery is to be cured by the application of a young mouse roasted; that young blood, properly injected, restores youth to aged veins; it is not true that two and two make four, and that emprostathonos follows opistathonos.”

The archdeacon replied without perturbation: “There are certain things of which I think in a certain fashion.”

Coictier became crimson with anger.

“There, there, my good Coictier, let us not get angry,” said Gossip Tourangeau.

“Monsieur the archdeacon is our friend.”

Coictier calmed down, muttering in a low tone, —

“After all, he’s mad.”