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And the cathedral was not only society for him, but the universe, and all nature beside He dreaerows than the painted s, always in flower; no other shade than that of the foliage of stone which spread out, loaded with birds, in the tufts of the Saxon capitals; of no other mountains than the colossal towers of the church; of no other ocean than Paris, roaring at their bases

What he loved above all else in the maternal edifice, that which aroused his soul, and s, which it kept so miserably folded in its cavern, that which sometimes rendered him even happy, was the bells He loved them, fondled them, talked to them, understood them From the chime in the spire, over the intersection of the aisles and nave, to the great bell of the front, he cherished a tenderness for them all The central spire and the tere to hi for him alone Yet it was these very bells which had made him deaf; but mothers often love best that child which has caused the

It is true that their voice was the only one which he could still hear On this score, the big bell was his beloved It was she whoirls which bustled above him, on festival days This bell was named Marie She was alone in the southern toith her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size, shut up in a se beside hers This Jacqueline was so called froiven it to the church, which had not prevented his going and figuring without his head at Montfauçon In the second tower there were six other bells, and, finally, six s, with the wooden bell, which rang only between after dinner on Good Friday and theof the day before Easter So Quasi Marie was his favorite

No idea can be forrand peal was sounded At the moment when the archdeacon dismissed him, and said, "Go!" he mounted the spiral staircase of the clock tower faster than any one else could have descended it He entered perfectly breathless into the aerial chaazed at her a ently addressed her and patted her with his hand, like a good horse, which is about to set out on a long journey He pitied her for the trouble that she was about to suffer After these first caresses, he shouted to his assistants, placed in the lower story of the tower, to begin They grasped the ropes, the wheel creaked, the enormous capsule of metal started slowly into lance and trembled The first shock of the clapper and the brazen wall made the framework upon which it was mounted quiver Quasimodo vibrated with the bell