The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Book 7 Chapter 8 Page 15

beautiful shoulder emerge from the gauze, as round and brown as the moon rising through the mists of the horizon.

The young girl allowed Phoebus to have his way.

She did not appear to perceive it. The eye of the bold captain flashed.

Suddenly she turned towards him, —

“Phoebus,” she said, with an expression of infinite love, “instruct me in thy religion.”

“My religion!” exclaimed the captain, bursting with laughter, “I instruct you in my religion! Corne et tonnerre! What do you want with my religion?”

“In order that we may be married,” she replied.

The captain’s