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Her voice was like her dancing, like her beauty It was indefinable and chared, so to speak There were continual outbursts, melodies, unexpected cadences, then si notes; then floods of scales which would have put a nightingale to rout, but in which harmony was always present; then soft modulations of octaves which rose and fell, like the bosoular , fronity One would have pronounced her now awere in a tongue unknown to Gringoire, and which seemed to him to be unknown to herself, so little relation did the expression which she i bear to the sense of the words Thus, these four lines, in her ran riqueza Hallaron dentro un pilar, Dentro del, nuevas banderas Con figuras de espantar~A coffer of great richness In a pillar's heart they found, Within it lay new banners, With figures to astound

And an instant afterwards, at the accents which she imparted to this stanza,-~Alarabes de cavallo Sin poderse menear, Con espadas, y los cuellos, Ballestas de buen echar~, Gringoire felt the tears start to his eyes Nevertheless, her song breathed joy,like a bird, fro had disturbed Gringoire's revery as the swan disturbs the water He listened in a sort of rapture, and forgetfulness of everything It was the first moment in the course of many hours when he did not feel that he suffered

The moment was brief

The saypsy's dance, interrupted her song

"Will you hold your tongue, you cricket of hell?" it cried, still from the same obscure corner of the place

The poor "cricket" stopped short Gringoire covered up his ears

"Oh!" he exclai teeth, which comes to break the lyre!"

Meanwhile, the other spectators murmured like himself; "To the devil with the sacked nun!" said soht have had occasion to repent of her aggressions against the gypsy had their attention not been diverted at this moment by the procession of the Pope of the Fools, which, after having traversed many streets and squares, debouched on the Place de Grève, with all its torches and all its uproar

This procession, which our readers have seen set out froanized on the way, and had been recruited by all the knaves, idle thieves, and uneabonds in Paris; so that it presented a very respectable aspect when it arrived at the Grève