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CHAPTER 13
Master Jehan excl aimed:"Let us be off to and turn my good
brother's moneys into bottles!"
"Upon my soul,cried Jehan,"that can be nobody but my friend
Captain Phoebus!"
The name Phoebus struck the ear of the Archdeacon at the moment
when he was explaining to the King's Proctor.
It was in fact Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers.He was leaning
against the angle of the house and swearing like a pagan2.
"Will you come and drink with me?"asked the scholar.
This proposal③pacified④the Captain.“I fain would,”said he,
“but I have no money.”
“Well,but I have.”
The two friends then bent their steps toward the tavern known by
the sign of La Pomme d'Eve.
The Archdeacon followed them with wild and gloomy look.
At the turning of a street,the sound of a tambourine was wafted 5
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第十三章
“让我们走,我要拿我好哥哥的钱换酒
喝!”约翰嚷道。
“我敢用灵魂发誓,”约翰喊道,“这
是我的朋友弗比斯队长。”
副主教正在向国王的检察官解释着什
么,弗比斯的名字传入他的耳朵,他被震
惊了。
那的确是弗比斯·德·沙多贝尔队长。
①swear/swea/.咒骂
此时,他正靠在墙角,像个异教徒一般地
2pagn'peigan/n.异教徒
proposal/pra'pauzal/n.提议
咒骂着。
④pacify"pesifa/.使.…平静
“你想和我一起去喝酒吗?”学生问。
这提议使弗比斯队长平静了。“我当
然愿意,可我没钱。”
“但我有啊。”
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两个朋友动身向一家以夏娃的苹果作
标志的酒馆走去。
副主教跟随着他们,神色愤怒而阴沉。
5waf/wa:f/.飘浮,飘荡
在一条街的拐角处,一阵手鼓的声音
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
to them from a crossing at a little distance.Dom Claude heard the
officer say to his brother:"Quick!"
“Why,Phoebus?"
Here the Archdeacon saw Phoebus grin,stoop to Jehan's ear,and
whisper a few words in it.
“Indeed!”said Jehan.
“Upon my soul!”'replied Phoebus..
“Tonight?”
“This very night..”
"Are you sure she will come?"
"You must be silly,Jehan,not the least doubt of it."
The Archdeacon heard every syllable of this conversation.His
teeth chattered.
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巴黎圣母院「
传到他们耳中。克洛德修士听到那军官对
他弟弟说:“快走”
“为什么,弗比斯?”
这时副主教见弗比斯咧着嘴笑了一下,
①gin/grin/.露齿而笑
俯身凑近约翰的耳边嘀咕了几句。
“真的吗?”约翰问。
“以我的灵魂发誓。”弗比斯答道。
“今晚?”
“就是今晚”。
“你肯定她会来吗?”
“你一定傻了,约翰,这种事有什么好
怀疑的?”
副主教听到了他们谈话的每个字,他
2 syllable/'siabl/n音节
把牙齿咬得咯咯响。
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