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Updated: May 4, 2025
Beside the cart rode several officers of justice and police, recognizable by their black costume and their awkwardness in the saddle. Master Jacques Charmolue paraded at their head. In the fatal cart sat a young girl with her arms tied behind her back, and with no priest beside her.
Jacques Charmolue interfered. "If the gentlemen please, we will proceed to the examination of the goat." He was, in fact, the second criminal. Nothing more simple in those days than a suit of sorcery instituted against an animal.
Dom Claude seemed absorbed in gloomy abstraction. He turned to Charmolue, "Master Pierrat Master Jacques, I mean, busy yourself with Marc Cenaine." "Yes, yes, Dom Claude. Poor man! he will have suffered like Mummol. What an idea to go to the witches' sabbath! a butler of the Court of Accounts, who ought to know Charlemagne's text; Stryga vel masea!
"Then it grieves me deeply, but I must fulfil my office." "Monsieur le Procureur du Roi," said Pierrat abruptly, "How shall we begin?" Charmolue hesitated for a moment with the ambiguous grimace of a poet in search of a rhyme. "With the boot," he said at last.
Master Charmolue exhibited an alarming note book, and began to read, with many gestures and the exaggerated accentuation of the pleader, an oration in Latin, wherein all the proofs of the suit were piled up in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked with quotations from Plautus, his favorite comic author. We regret that we are not able to offer to our readers this remarkable piece.
Let the reader imagine the effect in the midst of a theatrical piece, of the yelping of an usher, flinging in between two rhymes, and often in the middle of a line, parentheses like the following, "Master Jacques Charmolue, procurator to the king in the Ecclesiastical Courts!" "Jehan de Harlay, equerry guardian of the office of chevalier of the night watch of the city of Paris!"
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