The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Cross of God!” said the hosier, “are you deaf?”

He was, in truth, deaf.

for it is time which has spread over the façade that sombre hue of the centuries

and feasting, of oaths and quarrels, which escaped through the broken panes, was audible. Through the mist which the warmth of the room spread over the window in front, a hundred confused figures could be seen swarming, and from time to time

and above all, of the expression spread over the whole; of that mixture of malice, amazement, and sadness. Let the reader dream of this whole, if he can.

masterpiece of lightness and grace

would be standing still, with its ancient grand hall;

the lofty wall

a dazzlement in the eyes

with a very “pretty morality, allegorical satire, and farce

the fragile memory