Superstitious, and not given to devoutness, like every soldier who is only a soldier, when he came to question himself about this adventure, he did not feel assured as to the goat, as to the singular fashion in which he had met La Esmeralda, as to the no less strange manner in which she had allowed him to divine her love, as to her character as a gypsy, and lastly, as to the surly monk.
Indévot et superstitieux, comme tout soldat qui n’est que soldat, quand il se questionnait sur cette aventure, il n’était pas rassuré sur la chèvre, sur la façon bizarre dont il avait fait rencontre de la Esmeralda, sur la manière non moins étrange dont elle lui avait laissé deviner son amour, sur sa qualité d’égyptienne, enfin sur le moine bourru.