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UNPOPULARITY. The archdeacon and the bellringer, as we have already said, were but little loved by the populace great and small, in the vicinity of the cathedral. When Claude and Quasimodo went out …
ABBAS BEATI MARTINI . Dom Claude’s fame had spread far and wide. It procured for him, at about the epoch when he refused to see Madame de Beaujeu, a visit which he long remembered. It was in the ev…
THIS WILL KILL THAT. Our lady readers will pardon us if we pause for a moment to seek what could have been the thought concealed beneath those enigmatic words of the archdeacon: “This will kill that…
AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY. A very happy personage in the year of grace 1482, was the noble gentleman Robert d’Estouteville, chevalier, Sieur de Beyne, Baron d’Ivry and Saint Andr…
THE RAT-HOLE. The reader must permit us to take him back to the Place de Grève, which we quitted yesterday with Gringoire, in order to follow la Esmeralda. It is ten o’clock in the morning; everyth…
HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE. At the epoch of this history, the cell in the Tour-Roland was occupied. If the reader desires to know by whom, he has only to lend an ear to the conversation of …
A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER. These words were, so to speak, the point of union of two scenes, which had, up to that time, been developed in parallel lines at the same moment, each on its particular t…
END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE. La Esmeralda turned pale and descended from the pillory, staggering as she went. The voice of the recluse still pursued her,— “Descend! descend! Thief of Egypt! thou s…
THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE’S SECRET TO A GOAT. Many weeks had elapsed. The first of March had arrived. The sun, which Dubartas, that classic ancestor of periphrase, had not yet dubbed the “Grand-d…
A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. The priest whom the young girls had observed at the top of the North tower, leaning over the Place and so attentive to the dance of the gypsy, wa…
