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Thus he sahat the priest was looking at The ladder was erected near the perallows There were so a white thing, fro the paveallows

Here so took place which Quasimodo could not see very clearly It was not because his only eye had not preserved its long range, but there was a group of soldiers which prevented his seeing everything Moreover, at that ht overflowed the horizon that one would have said that all the points in Paris, spires, chiables, had sian to ain distinctly He was carrying a wo girl had a noose about her neck Quasinized her

It was she

The ed the noose Here the priest, in order to see the better, knelt upon the balustrade

All at once the man kicked away the ladder abruptly, and Quasimodo, who had not breathed for severalat the end of the rope two fatho on her shoulders The rope yrations on itself, and Quasiypsy's body The priest, on his side, with outstretched neck and eyes starting froroup of the irl,--the spider and the fly

At the h which one can only give vent to when one is no longer human, burst forth on the priest's livid face

Quasier retreated several paces behind the archdeacon, and suddenly hurling hie hands he pushed him by the back over into the abyss over which Do

The priest shrieked: "Damnation!" and fell

The spout, above which he had stood, arrested hi to it with desperate hands, and, at the moment when he opened his mouth to utter a second cry, he beheld the fore of the balustrade above his head

Then he was silent

The abyss was there below him A fall of more than two hundred feet and the pavement