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He approached his eood deal of fear of the latter's displeasure, he aardly explained to hi disrespect of the audience: that noonday had arrived before his ein without waiting for his eh

"On ht to have done the saneur," replied Guillau escaped half of the coained"

"Can these rascals continue their farce?" asked the bailiff

"Continue, continue," said the cardinal, "it's all the same to me I'll read my breviary in the e of the estrade, and cried, after having invoked silence by a wave of the hand,-"Bourgeois, rustics, and citizens, in order to satisfy those ish the play to begin again, and those ish it to end, his eminence orders that it be continued"

Both parties were forced to resign thee against the cardinal

So the personages on the stage took up their parts, and Gringoire hoped that the rest of his work, at least, would be listened to This hope was speedily dispelled like his other illusions; silence had indeed, been restored in the audience, after a fashion; but Gringoire had not observed that at the allery was far from full, and that after the Fle part of the cortege, whose naue by the interes in it Let the reader iine the effect in the ing in between two rhymes, and often in the ,-"Master Jacques Char in the Ecclesiastical Courts!"

"Jehan de Harlay, equerry guardian of the office of chevalier of the night watch of the city of Paris!"

"Messire Galiot de Genoilhac, chevalier, seigneur de Brussac, uier, surveyor of the woods and forests of the king our sovereign, in the land of France, Chane and Brie!"

"Messire Louis de Graville, chevalier, councillor, and cha, admiral of France, keeper of the Forest of Vincennes!"

"Master Denis le Mercier, guardian of the house of the blind at Paris!" etc, etc, etc