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He did not finish Quasi the scholar by the feet with one hand and whirling hi; then a sound like that of a bony structure in contact with a as heard, and so was seen to fall which halted a third of the way down in its fall, on a projection in the architecture It was a dead body which re there, bent double, its loins broken, its skull eeance!" shouted Clopin "To the sack!" replied the multitude "Assault! assault!"

There caues, all dialects, all accents The death of the poor scholar imparted a furious ardor to that crowd It was seized with sha in check before a church by a hunchback Rage found ladders, multiplied the torches, and, at the expiration of a few minutes, Quasimodo, in despair, beheld that terrible ant heap mount on all sides to the assault of Notre-Dame Those who had no ladders had knotted ropes; those who had no ropes cli fro that rising tide of frightful faces; rage made these fierce countenances ruddy; their clayey broere dripping with sweat; their eyes darted lightnings; all these grie to Quasimodo One would have said that some other church had despatched to the assault of Notre-Das, its drées, its demons, itsmonsters on the stone monsters of the façade

Meanwhile, the Place was studded with a thousand torches This scene of confusion, till now hid in darkness, was suddenly flooded with light The parvis was resplendent, and cast a radiance on the sky; the bonfire lighted on the lofty platfor, and illuminated the city far away The enormous silhouette of the ters, projected afar on the roofs of Paris, and forht The city seeabonds howled, panted, swore, cliainst sothe furious faces approaching ever nearer and nearer to his gallery, entreated heaven for ahis arms in despair