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The victim finally arrived, bound to the tail of a cart, and when he had been hoisted upon the platform, where he could be seen from all points of the Place, bound with cords and straps upon the wheel of the pillory, a prodigious hoot, hter and acclanized Quasiular Pilloried on the very place where, on the day before, he had been saluted, acclaie of the Duke of Egypt, the King of Thunes, and the E is certain, and that is, that there was not a soul in the crowd, not even hih in turn triumphant and the sufferer, who set forth this cooire and his philosophy wereat this spectacle

Soon Michel Noiret, sworn tru, our lord, imposed silence on the louts, and proclaimed the sentence, in accordance with the order and command of monsieur the provost Then he withdrew behind the cart, with his men in livery surcoats

Quasimodo, impassible, did not wince All resistance had been rendered impossible to him by as then called, in the style of the criminal chancellery, "the vehes and chains probably cut into his flesh; moreover, it is a tradition of jail and wardens, which has not been lost, and which the handcuffs still preciously preserve aalleys and the guillotine in parentheses)

He had allowed hiain Nothing was to be seen upon his countenance but the astonishht have pronounced him to be blind

They placed him on his knees on the circular plank; he made no resistance They reirdle; he allowed theled his and buckles; he allowed them to bind and buckle him Only from tiing and bue of a butcher's cart

"The dolt," said Jehan Frollo of the Mill, to his friend Robin Poussepain (for the two students had followed the culprit, as was to have been expected), "he understands no more than a cockchafer shut up in a box!"

There ild laughter a the crohen they beheld Quasimodo's hump, his camel's breast, his callous and hairy shoulders laid bare During this gayety, a man in the livery of the city, short of stature and robust of mien, mounted the platform and placed hi the spectators It was Master Pierrat Torterue, official torturer to the Châtelet