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THE BELLS. After the morning in the pillory, the neighbors of Notre-Dame thought they noticed that Quasimodo’s ardor for ringing had grown cool. Formerly, there had been peals for every occasion, lo…
ἈΝÁΓΚΗ. It chanced that upon a fine morning in this same month of March, I think it was on Saturday the 29th, Saint Eustache’s day, our young friend the student, Jehan Frollo du Moulin, perceived, a…
THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK. The personage who entered wore a black gown and a gloomy mien. The first point which struck the eye of our Jehan (who, as the reader will readily surmise, had ensconced…
THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE. “ Te Deum laudamus !” exclaimed Master Jehan, creeping out from his hole, “the screech-owls have departed. Och! och! Hax! pax! max! fleas! m…
THE MYSTERIOUS MONK. The illustrious wine shop of “Eve’s Apple” was situated in the University, at the corner of the Rue de la Rondelle and the Rue de la Bâtonnier. It was a very spacious and very l…
THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER. Claude Frollo (for we presume that the reader, more intelligent than Phœbus, has seen in this whole adventure no other surly monk than the archdeacon)…
THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF. Gringoire and the entire Court of Miracles were suffering mortal anxiety. For a whole month they had not known what had become of la Esmeralda, which greatly paine…
CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF. After ascending and descending several steps in the corridors, which were so dark that they were lighted by lamps at midday, La Esmeralda…
END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF. When she re-entered the audience hall, pale and limping, she was received with a general murmur of pleasure. On the part of the audience there was …
LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA —LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER HERE. In the Middle Ages, when an edifice was complete, there was almost as much of it in the earth as above it. Unless built upon piles, …
