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A other moments there came one, when it occurred to him that it was perhaps the very , was pressing its iron noose closer about that frail and graceful neck This thought caused the perspiration to start fro diabolically at himself, he represented to himself la Esmeralda as he had seen her on that first day, lively, careless, joyous, gayly attired, dancing, winged, harmonious, and la Esmeralda of the last day, in her scanty shift, with a rope about her neck, ular ladder of the gallows; he figured to hiave vent to a terrible cry

While this hurricane of despair overturned, broke, tore up, bent, uprooted everything in his soul, he gazed at nature around hi the thickets and pecking, enaroups of dappled gray clouds were floating across the blue sky; on the horizon, the spire of the Abbey Saint-Victor pierced the ridge of the hill with its slate obelisk; and theas he watched the laborious wings of his anized, tranquil life, recurring around hiht

He sped thus across the fields until evening This flight fro, lasted all day long So hi blades of wheat with his nails Soe, and his thoughts were so intolerable that he grasped his head in both hands and tried to tear it from his shoulders in order to dash it upon the paveain, and found hied within him ever since the instant when he had lost the hope and the will to save the gypsy,--that tele healthy idea, a single thought which ht position His reason lay there ales in his allows; all the rest was blank Those two iroup; and the ht was left to hirow, in accordance with a fantastic progression, the one in grace, in charht, the other in deformity and horror; so that at last la Esibbet like an enormous, fleshless arm