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"Messeigneurs, eoire coolly (for I know not how, firmness had returned to hi; oire I arand hall of the Courts"

"Ah! so it was you, master!" said Clopin "I was there, ~xête Dieu~! Well! comrade, is that any reason, because you bored us to death this ?"

"I shall find difficulty in getting out of it," said Gringoire to himself Nevertheless, he made one abonds," said he "Vagabond, Aesopus certainly was; Hoar; Mercurius was a thief--"

Clopin interrupted hion Zounds! let yourself be hung, and don't kick up such a row over it!"

"Pardon oire, disputing the ground foot by foot "It is worth trouble--Oneto conde heard me"-His unlucky voice was, in fact, drowned in the uproar which rose around him The little boy scraped away at his cauldron with more spirit than ever; and, to crown all, an old worease, which hissed away on the fire with a noise similar to the cry of a troop of children in pursuit of a masker

In the meantime, Clopin Trouillefou appeared to hold a ypt, and the Emperor of Galilee, as completely drunk Then he shouted shrilly: "Silence!" and, as the cauldron and the frying-pan did not heed hishead, gave a kick to the boiler, which rolled ten paces away bearing the child with it, a kick to the frying-pan, which upset in the fire with all its grease, and gravely re hi of the old wo away in a fine white flan, and the duke, the emperor, and the passed masters of pickpockets, and the isolated robbers, caed theoire, still roughly held by the body, fors, tatters, tinsel, pitchforks, axes, legs staggering with intoxication, huge, bare arms, faces sordid, dull, and stupid In the ary, Clopin Trouillefou,--as the doge of this senate, as the king of this peerage, as the pope of this conclave,-- doshead, and next by virtue of an indescribable, haughty, fierce, and formidable air, which caused his eyes to flash, and corrected in his savage profile the bestial type of the race of vagabonds One would have pronounced him a boar amid a herd of swine