The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: resumo de Book 8, Chapter 4

O que acontece

1. The narrator describes underground prisons before showing La Esmeralda chained, cold, and barely conscious beneath the courthouse.
2. A hooded priest enters, says her execution is tomorrow, and reveals the face she associates with her suffering.
3. He declares his love and recounts watching her, attempting her abduction, and denouncing her to the authorities.
4. He describes witnessing her torture, shows his wounds, and begs her to escape with him.
5. She demands news of Phœbus; the priest claims he is dead and describes driving the dagger into him.
6. La Esmeralda pushes the priest away and refuses him; he leaves after repeating his claim about Phœbus.

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O que observar

La Esmeralda answers the priest’s claim that Phœbus is dead. Her response makes clear that his offer of survival cannot overcome her attachment to Phœbus.

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