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“ Listen to me , ” said the priest , and he fell on his knees beside her on the wet stones . “ Listen , and then you will know . I was a happy man before I saw you , and I studied , I prayed and I lived a pure life . Then one day in the spring I looked out of my window and saw a girl dancing in the square . You were so lovely that I forgot God and all my books . I tried to forget you , and I fought against it for months . Then I tried to carry you off one night , with my bell - ringer , but the archers came . At last I went to the church court and told them that you were a witch . I thought that a trial would free me from you , or give you into my hands . Then I saw you with that man , and I could not bear it . I followed you , I watched , I struck . I had not thought of the torture . When they put your foot in the boot , I was there in the dark , and I suffered with every turn of the screw . ” He opened his robe , and she saw that his chest was torn as if by the claws of a tiger , and there was a badly healed wound in his side . “ Look , ” he said . “ I have done this to myself . Have pity on me ! I love you , and I can save you . Come with me and be mine , and we will run away together , far from Paris . Only love me ! ” She looked at him coldly . “ What has happened to my Phoebus ? ” she said . “ Oh , you have no pity ! ” cried the priest . “ What has happened to Phoebus ? ” she asked again . “ He is dead ! ” cried the priest . “ Dead ? ” she said , and she did not move . “ Then why do you talk to me of living ? ” He went up the stairs to the door , and there he turned and shouted down at her in rage and despair , “ I tell you , he is dead ! ” She fell on her face on the stones , and the only sound in the cell was the drop of water falling from the roof . But Phoebus was not dead . His wound was not as bad as the priest had believed , and he had soon got better . But he did not go to the court to tell what he knew , because a captain does not like to be seen in a story about a gypsy girl and a ghost . When he heard that she had been sentenced , he thought that the matter was finished . He went back to Fleur - de - Lys and told her that he had been away with his soldiers . Two months passed , and he forgot the gypsy almost entirely . XI . Sanctuary ! On a bright morning in May , Phoebus rode across the square in front of Notre - Dame to visit Fleur - de - Lys . There was a large crowd in the square , but he did not ask why . He thought that it was a church holiday . He went up to the balcony , and the two lovers sat there and talked happily , until Fleur - de - Lys looked down .
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