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We have all forgotten him completely
This is precisely what he feared
Frooire had never ceased to treue At first he had enjoined the actors, who had stopped in suspense, to continue, and to raise their voices; then, perceiving that no one was listening, he had stopped the the entire quarter of an hour that the interruption lasted, he had not ceased to stamp, to flounce about, to appeal to Gisquette and Liénarde, and to urge his neighbors to the continuance of the prologue; all in vain No one quitted the cardinal, the eallery--sole centre of this vast circle of visual rays We ue had begun slightly to weary the audience at the moment when his eminence had arrived, and created a diversion in so terrible a fashion After all, on the gallery as well as on the marble table, the spectacle was the say, of Nobility and Merchandise And , elbowing each other in flesh and blood, in this Flemish embassy, in this Episcopal court, under the cardinal's robe, under Coppenole's jerkin, than painted, decked out, talking in verse, and, so to speak, stuffed beneath the yellow aoire had so ridiculously clothed them
Nevertheless, when our poet beheld quiet reestablished to soht have redee towards one of his neighbors, a fine, big ain"
"What?" said his neighbor
"Hé! the Mystery," said Gringoire
"As you like," returned his neighbor
This se his own affairs, he began to shout, confounding hiin the ain!"
"The devil!" said Joannes de Molendino, "what are they jabbering down yonder, at the end of the hall?" (for Gringoire was h for four) "Say, coin it all over again That's not fair!"
"No, no!" shouted all the scholars "Doith the oire had in again! begin again!"
These clamors attracted the attention of the cardinal
"Monsieur Bailiff of the Courts," said he to a tall, black man, placed a few paces from him, "are those knaves in a holy-water vessel, that they make such a hellish noise?"
The bailiff of the courts was a sort of aistrate, a sort of bat of the judicial order, related to both the rat and the bird, the judge and the soldier