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"~Te Deu out from his hole, "the screech-owls have departed Och! och! Hax! pax! h of their conversation! My head is hu like a bell tower Andbrother's purse and convert all these coins into bottles!"

He cast a glance of tenderness and admiration into the interior of the precious pouch, readjusted his toilet, rubbed up his boots, dusted his poor half sleeves, all gray with ashes, whistled an air, indulged in a sportive pirouette, looked about to see whether there were not soathered up here and there on the furnace souise of a trinket, on Isabeau la Thierrye, finally pushed open the door which his brother had left unfastened, as a last indulgence, and which he, in his turn, left open as a last piece oflike a bird

In the loo which drew aside with a growl; he took it for granted that it was Quasimodo, and it struck him as so droll that he descended the rehter On ehed yet more heartily

He staain "Oh!" said he, "good and honorable paveels of Jacob's ladder out of breath! What was I thinking of to thrust i bearded cheese, and looking at the bell- towers of Paris through a hole in the wall!"

He advanced a few paces, and caught sight of the two screech owls, that is to say, Dom Claude and Master Jacques Char on the façade He approached them on tiptoe, and heard the archdeacon say in a low tone to Charmolue: "'Twas Guillaume de Paris who caused a Job to be carved upon this stone of the hue of lapis-lazuli, gilded on the edges Job represents the philosopher's stone, which must also be tried and martyrized in order to become perfect, as saith Raymond Lulle: ~Sub conservatione formoe speciftoe salva anima~"

"That makes no difference to me," said Jehan, "'tis I who have the purse"

At that moment he heard a powerful and sonorous voice articulate behind hi Dieu! Ventre-Dieu! Bédieu! Corps de Dieu! Nombril de Belzebuth! Nom d'un pape! Come et tonnerre~"