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The reader has no doubt divined that this unexpected resistance which had exasperated the outcasts came from Quasimodo

Chance had, unfortunately, favored the brave deaf man

When he had descended to the platform between the towers, his ideas were all in confusion He had run up and down along the gallery for severalfroabonds ready to hurl itself on the church, deypsy froht had occurred to hi the alarm, but before he could have set the bell in le clamor, was there not time to burst in the door of the church ten times over? It was precisely theupon it with their tools What was to be done?

All at once, he re the wall, the timber-work, and the roof of the south tower This was a flash of light The as of stone, the roof of lead, the tiious timber-work, so dense that it was called "the forest") Quasimodo hastened to that tower The lower chambers were, in fact, full of h blocks of stone, sheets of lead in rolls, bundles of laths, heavy beams already notched with the saw, heaps of plaster

Ti, The pikes and hath which the sense of danger increased tenfold, he seized one of the beah a loophole, then, grasping it again outside of the tower, he le of the balustrade which surrounds the platfor that fall of a hundred and sixty feet, scraping the wall, breaking the carvings, turnedoff alone through space At last it reached the ground, the horrible cry arose, and the black beam, as it rebounded fro

Quasimodo beheld the outcasts scatter at the fall of the beae of their fright, and while they were fixing a superstitious glance on the club which had fallen fro out the eyes of the stone saints on the front with a discharge of arrows and buckshot, Quasih blocks of stone, even the sacks of tools belonging to the e of the balustrade from which the beam had already been hurled