The Hunchback of Notre Dame Book 8 Chapter III - End of the Crown which was Changed into a Dry Leaf

In which the sombre theatre of justice unfolds within a dimly lit hall, where a pale and weary accused stands before a court steeped in ceremony and ritual, her fate weighed by words both grandiloquent and merciless. The grim proceedings are punctuated by the curious antics of a tethered little goat, while the voices of judges, advocates, and ancient laws mingle in a heavy air of impending judgment and austere finality.