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Jehan restrained him. "Fye, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers!" Phoebus counted the coins, and turning towards Jehan with solemnity, "Do you know, Jehan, that there are three and twenty sous parisis! whom have you plundered to-night, in the Street Cut-Weazand?" Jehan flung back his blonde and curly head, and said, half-closing his eyes disdainfully,
They say, Coupe-Gorge ." * Cut-Weazand Street. Cut-Throat Street. The two friends set out towards "Eve's Apple." It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them. The archdeacon followed them, gloomy and haggard. Was this the Phoebus whose accursed name had been mingled with all his thoughts ever since his interview with Gringoire?
The Abbey of Saint-German-des-Pres was castellated like a baronial mansion, and more brass expended about it in bombards than in bells. Its fortress was still to be seen in 1610. To-day, barely its church remains. * Cut-throat. Coupe-gueule being the vulgar word for cut-weazand. Let us return to Notre-Dame.
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