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All at once, at thethe his breath and stiffening his muscles in order to cohtful still than that which had burst forth and expired beneath the bea them Those who did not cry out, those ere still alive, looked Two strea from the summit of the edifice into the thickest of the rabble That sea ofmetal, which hadholes in the crowd, such as hot water would uish, could be seen writhing there Around these two principal streams there were drops of that horrible rain, which scattered over the assailants and entered their skulls like gimlets of fire It was a heavy fire which overwhelmed these wretches with a thousand hailstones

The outcry was heartrending They fled pell- the beam upon the bodies, the boldest as well as the most timid, and the parvis was cleared a second time

All eyes were raised to the top of the church They beheld there an extraordinary sight On the crest of the highest gallery, higher than the central rose , there was a great fla between the tith inds of sparks, a vast, disordered, and furious flaue of which was borne into the smoke by the wind, froloolare, two spouts withrain, whose silvery streaainst the shadows of the lower façade As they approached the earth, these two jets of liquid lead spread out in sheaves, like water springing fro-pot Above the flame, the enormous towers, two sides of each of which were visible in sharp outline, the one wholly black, the other wholly red, seemed still more vast with all the immensity of the shadohich they cast even to the sky

Their innuubrious aspect The restless light of the flariffins which had the air of laughing, gargoyles which one fancied one heard yelping, salamanders which puffed at the fire, tarasques which sneezed in the s the monsters thus roused from their sleep of stone by this flame, by this noise, there was one alked about, and as seen, fro face of the pile, like a bat in front of a candle