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Let us add that the church, that vast church, which surrounded her on every side, which guarded her, which saved her, was itself a sovereign tranquillizer The soleious attitude of all the objects which surrounded the young girl, the serene and pious thoughts which emanated, so to speak, from all the pores of that stone, acted upon her without her being aware of it The edifice had also sounds fraught with such benediction and suchsoul Theof the celebrants, the responses of the people to the priest, sometimes inarticulate, so of the painted s, the organ, bursting forth like a hundred true bees, that whole orchestra on which bounded a gigantic scale, ascending, descending incessantly fro to that of one bell, dulled her rief The bells, in particular, lulled her It was sonetisreat waves

Thus every sunrise found herbetter, less pale In proportion as her inounds closed, her grace and beauty blossohtful, more reposeful Her forayety, her pretty pout, her love for her goat, her love for singing, herin the corner of her cell for fear soh the

When the thought of Phoebus left her tiht of Quasimodo He was the sole bond, the sole connection, the sole co Unfortunate girl! she was more outside the world than Quasie friend whoiven her She often reproached herself for not feeling a gratitude which should close her eyes, but decidedly, she could not accustoly

She had left the whistle which he had given her lying on the ground This did not prevent Quasi the first few days She did her best not to turn aside with tooher her basket of provisions or her jug of water, but he always perceived the slightest movement of this sort, and then he withdrew sadly

Once he ca Djali He stood pensively for several ypsy; at last he said, shaking his heavy and ill-formed head,-"My misfortune is that I still resemble a oat"