[Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo]@TWC D-Link bookNotre-Dame de Paris CHAPTER V 5/13
It can't be your husband." "Another!" "Belly of the pope! what sort of a grimace is that ?" "Hola he! that's cheating.
One must show only one's face." "That damned Perrette Callebotte! she's capable of that!" "Good! Good!" "I'm stifling!" "There's a fellow whose ears won't go through!" Etc., etc. But we must do justice to our friend Jehan.
In the midst of this witches' sabbath, he was still to be seen on the top of his pillar, like the cabin-boy on the topmast.
He floundered about with incredible fury. His mouth was wide open, and from it there escaped a cry which no one heard, not that it was covered by the general clamor, great as that was but because it attained, no doubt, the limit of perceptible sharp sounds, the thousand vibrations of Sauveur, or the eight thousand of Biot. As for Gringoire, the first moment of depression having passed, he had regained his composure.
He had hardened himself against adversity.---"Continue!" he had said for the third time, to his comedians, speaking machines; then as he was marching with great strides in front of the marble table, a fancy seized him to go and appear in his turn at the aperture of the chapel, were it only for the pleasure of making a grimace at that ungrateful populace.--"But no, that would not be worthy of us; no, vengeance! let us combat until the end," he repeated to himself; "the power of poetry over people is great; I will bring them back.
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