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Notre-Dame de Paris

CHAPTER IV
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Do you hear, usher?
Nothing more, nothing less.

Cross of God! hosier; that's fine enough.

Monsieur the Archduke has more than once sought his _gant_* in my hose." * Got the first idea of a timing.
Laughter and applause burst forth.

A jest is always understood in Paris, and, consequently, always applauded.
Let us add that Coppenole was of the people, and that the auditors which surrounded him were also of the people.

Thus the communication between him and them had been prompt, electric, and, so to speak, on a level.
The haughty air of the Flemish hosier, by humiliating the courtiers, had touched in all these plebeian souls that latent sentiment of dignity still vague and indistinct in the fifteenth century.
This hosier was an equal, who had just held his own before monsieur the cardinal.


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