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Claude, saddened and discouraged in his huerly into the arh in your face, and which always pays you, though in money that is sometimes a little hollow, for the attention which you have paid to her Hence, he became more and more learned, and, at the said as a priest, more and more sad as a man There are for each of us several parallelisence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life

As Claude Frollo had passed through nearly the entire circle of hu--positive, exterior, and pered, unless he came to a halt, ~ubi defuit orbis~, to proceed further and seek other alience The antique sy its tail is, above all, applicable to science It would appear that Claude Frollo had experienced this Many grave persons affir, he had dared to penetrate into the ~nefas~ He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether fro the forbidden fruit He had taken his place by turns, as the reader has seen, in the conferences of the theologians in Sorbonne,--in the assemblies of the doctors of art, after the manner of Saint-Hilaire,--in the disputes of the decretalists, after the ations of physicians at the holy water font of Notre- Dame, ~ad cupam Nostroe-Dominoe~ All the dishes perreat kitchens called the four faculties could elaborate and serve to the understanding, he had devoured, and had been satiated with theer was appeased Then he had penetrated further, lower, beneath all that finished, e; he had, perhaps, risked his soul, and had seated himself in the cavern at that ers, of the hermetics, of which Averroès, Gillaues; and which extends in the East, by the light of the seven- branched candlestick, to Solooras, and Zoroaster

That is, at least, as supposed, whether rightly or not It is certain that the archdeacon often visited the cemetery of the Saints-Innocents, where, it is true, his father and ue of 1466; but that he appeared far less devout before the cross of their grave than before the strange figures hich the tomb of Nicolas Flamel and Claude Pernelle, erected just beside it, was loaded