"...After all it did not please him in the least to appear in this suit. He had a vague feeling that he should play a ridiculous figure in it. On the whole he did not know what to think of the whole affair. 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. He perceived in all these incidents much more magic than love probably a sorceress perhaps the devil; a comedy in short or to speak in the language of that day a very disagreeable mystery in which he played a very awkward part the role of blows and derision. The captain was quite put out of countenance about it; he experienced that sort of shame which our La Fontaine has so admirably defined
Ashamed as a fox who has been caught by a fowl. ..."