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This struck hie He redoubled his attention Thetowards the City There was no light It lasted for soh that which was passing were entering the interior of the island; then it stopped altogether, and the line of the quay becaain

At the moment when Quasimodo was lost in conjectures, it seemed to him that the moveed into the city perpendicularly to the façade of Notre-Dath, dense as was the darkness, he beheld the head of a column debouch fro could be distinguished in the gloom except that it was a crowd--spread over the Place

This spectacle had a terror of its own It is probable that this singular procession, which see itself under profound darkness, maintained a silence no less profound Nevertheless, so But this noise did not even reach our deaf , and of which he heard nothing, though it wasso near him, produced upon him the effect of a rabble of dead men, mute, impalpable, lost in a s towards hi in the shadow

Then his fears returned to hiypsy presented itself once more to his mind He was conscious, in a confused way, that a violent crisis was approaching At that critical moment he took counsel with hi than one would have expected froypsy? to make her escape? Whither? The streets were invested, the church backed on the river No boat, no issue!--There was but one thing to be done; to allow himself to be killed on the threshold of Notre-Dame, to resist at least until succor arrived, if it should arrive, and not to trouble la Esmeralda's sleep This resolution once taken, he set to exa seemed to increase every moment in the church square Only, he presu very little noise, since the s on the Place remained closed All at once, a flahted torches passed over the heads of the crowd, shaking their tufts of fla in the Parvis a frightful herd of s, armed with scythes, pikes, billhooks and partisans, whose thousand points glittered Here and there black pitchforks foruely recalled this populace, and thought that he recognized all the heads who had saluted him as Pope of the Fools some months previously One man who held a torch in one hand and a club in the other,thee ar up its post around the church Quasimodo picked up his lantern and descended to the platforet a nearer view, and to spy out a means of defence