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It is useless to warn the reader not to take literally all the siular, symmetrical, direct, almost consubstantial union of a man and an edifice It is equally unnecessary to state to what a degree that whole cathedral was fa and so inti was peculiar to him It had no depths to which Quasiht which he had not scaled He often climbed many stones up the front, aided solely by the uneven points of the carving The towers, on whose exterior surface he was frequently seen cla a perpendicular wall, those two gigantic twins, so lofty, so o, nor terror, nor shocks of aentle under his hand, so easy to scale, one would have said that he had ta aantic cathedral he had becooat, like the Calabrian child ims before he walks, and plays with the sea while still a babe

Moreover, it was not his body alone which seemed fashioned after the Cathedral, but his mind also In what condition was that mind? What bent had it contracted, what fore life? This it would be hard to determine Quasireat difficulty, and by dint of great patience that Claude Frollo had succeeded in teaching hi Bellringer of Notre-Dae of fourteen, a new infirmity had come to complete his misfortunes: the bells had broken the druate which nature had left wide open for hi, it had cut off the only ray of joy and of light which still made its way into the soul of Quasi's misery became as incurable and as complete as his deformity Let us add that his deafness rendered hih, the very moment that he found himself to be deaf, he resolved upon a silence which he only broke when he was alone He voluntarily tied that tongue which Claude Frollo had taken so much pains to unloose Hence, it came about, that when necessity constrained hiue was torpid, aard, and like a door whose hinges have grown rusty