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"Foundling!" he said, after exa the object; "found, apparently, on the banks of the river Phlegethon"

"One can only see one eye," observed Damoiselle Guillemette; "there is a wart on the other"

"It's not a wart," returned Master Robert Mistricolle, "it is an egg which contains another de which contains another devil, and so on"

"How do you know that?" asked Guillemette la Mairesse

"I know it pertinently," replied the protonotary

"Monsieur le protonotare," asked Gauchère, "what do you prognosticate of this pretended foundling?"

"The greatest ood heavens!" said an old wo had a considerable pestilence last year, and that they say that the English are going to disembark in a company at Harfleur"

"Perhaps that will prevent the queen fro to Paris in the month of September," interposed another; "trade is so bad already"

"My opinion is," exclaimed Jehanne de la Tarme, "that it would be better for the louts of Paris, if this little ot than on a plank"

"A fine, flaot," added the old woman

"It would be more prudent," said Mistricolle

For severalof the Haudriettes and the sentences of the notary He had a severe face, with a large brow, a profound glance He thrust the crowd silently aside, scrutinized the "little h ti their chops over the "fine, flaot"

"I adopt this child," said the priest

He took it in his cassock and carried it off The spectators followed hilances A h the "Red Door," which then led from the church to the cloister

When the first surprise was over, Jehanne de la Tarme bent down to the ear of la Gaultière,-"I told you so, sister,--that young clerk, Monsieur Claude Frollo, is a sorcerer"