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In the meantime, public minor had inforypsy had been saved When he learned it, he knew not what his sensations were He had reconciled himself to la Esmeralda's death In that matter he was tranquil; he had reached the botto The human heart (Dora Claude had meditated upon these matters) can contain only a certain quantity of despair When the sponge is saturated, the sea le drop e was soaked, all was at an end on this earth for Dom Claude But to feel that she was alive, and Phoebus also, inning again And Claude eary of all this

When he heard this news, he shut himself in his cell in the cloister He appeared neither at the s of the chapter nor at the services He closed his door against all, even against the bishop He remained thus immured for several weeks He was believed to be ill And so he was, in fact

What did he do while thus shut up? With what thoughts was the unfortunatefinal battle to his for a final plan of death for her and of perdition for himself?

His Jehan, his cherished brother, his spoiled child, caave his name half a score of times Claude did not open

He passed whole days with his face close to the panes of hisFrom that , situated in the cloister, he could see la Esoat, sometimes with Quasily deaf man, his obedience, his delicate and subood memory, and ular look of the bellringer, bent on the dancer upon a certain evening He asked himself what motive could have impelled Quasimodo to save her He was the witness of a thousand little scenes between the gypsy and the deaf man, the pantomime of which, viewed from afar and commented on by his passion, appeared very tender to him He distrusted the capriciousness of women Then he felt a jealousy which be could never have believed possible awakening within hination: "One ht upset him