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After the ht they noticed that Quasirown cool For serenades, which lasted froh , for a christening, andin the air like a rich e sounds The old church, all vibrating and sonorous, was in a perpetual joy of bells One was constantly conscious of the presence of a spirit of noise and caprice, who sang through all those mouths of brass Now that spirit seeladly remained silent; festivals and funerals had the si an within, the bell without, the organ alone reer a musician in the belfry Quasimodo was always there, nevertheless; what, then, had happened to hiered in the bottom of his heart, that the lashes of his torly in his soul, and that the sadness of such treatuished in him even his passion for the bells? or was it that Marie had a rival in the heart of the bellringer of Notre-Dalected for so more amiable and race 1482, Annunciation Day fell on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth of March That day the air was so pure and light that Quasi affection for his bells He therefore ascended the northern tohile the beadle beloas opening wide the doors of the church, which were then enormous panels of stout wood, covered with leather, bordered with nails of gilded iron, and fra in the lofty bell chaazed for soroaning over son element which had interposed itself in his heart between the, when he felt that cluster of bellsunder his hand, when he saw, for he did not hear it, the palpitating octave ascend and descend that sonorous scale, like a bird hopping from branch to branch; when the de bundle of strette, trills and arpeggios, had taken possession of the poor deaf , and his heart expanding, made his face beam