Beadle's New York Dime Library, No. 144 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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= . _ wedi der were left in the hall ran to the windows, clambering up ' Gringoire the walls to obt h repeating, ‘‘ La Esme- ralda! La Esme rs at same moment from the Place. Grin mci la glen in de | : le in pair. eaven ! i have come to the turn of the ows now!” Turning toward the marble table.lié perceived that | moment when Jup shou ve ap | tuan ler alt: bat upiter Was standing the foot of the stage. ' Michel. Giborne !’’ cried, the incensed poet, “mind | thy pogiyenn What art thou doing? make haste up!” “ Alas!” ed Jupiter, “‘ one of the scholars has run away with the ladder.” Gri looked: it-was even so. . The communica- tion stage was completely cut off. “The * And why did he take the varlet !’’ murmured he. ladder?”, ay ; “'To go and see La Esmeralda,” answered Jupiter, in ‘a dole{ul tone, .‘'* Stay,’ said he, ‘ here’s « ladder that’s nd off he seampered with it,” This was the final blow. Gringoire received it with resignation, | ‘ , ‘ Pun devil tch aA said he to the performers. “ I rid u ve ‘ - i re t he then made his retreat, but u aten of no use,’ * not nt e very last, like.a general who has bee soundl en, “A prett, pack oi asses. and boobies, these Pariaians !” he muttered between his teeth as he descen the winding staircase of the palace :‘ They cv.wé to hear @ mystery, and will not listen to it. They will eg aiianiion to every and every- body+to, Clopin. Trouilleton, to the Cardinal, to Cop- pengle, to Quasimodo! .but onthe Holy Vir,in they have none to bestow. Had Lknown, ye apiug ouphs, Ishould have given you. Virgin Maries, I warrant m\! T our, backs on sucha piece! Homer, it is tru:, veyed e bread in the Greek towns; and Naso died iu exile among the tes. But the fieud fly away with me if Icomprehend what thy mean by ae s Esmeralda. And what kind of word is it to begiu with ? It must surely be Egyptian!” . Se BOOK TI. - —_—— FROM CHARYBDIS INTO SCYLLA, NIGuT comes on early in the month of January. It was already dusk when Gringoire left the palace. To him the nightfall was doubly welcome, as he pur- posed seeking some obscure and sequestered street, where he might muse unmolested, and where ' philoso- phy might apply the first. dressing to the poet's wound. Im fact, philosophy was his only e; for he knew not where he should finda lodging. After the panel, Bene of his dramatic attempt, he durst not return to that which he had occupied in the Rue nip Pay E "Eau, opposite to the Port au Foin, hav- ing u | ‘Monsieur the provost would give him such &@ remuneration for his labor as would enable big. * pay Master Guillaume Douix-Sire,’ farmer of the customs on beasts with cloven hoofs, for the six months’ hich he owned him; that 4% , twelve sols twelve times the value ° ae that he in ‘the world, including his h » SM + and doublet. Waving considered for a heltering, ad tnlerim under the little gate- treasurer of Holy Chapel, select | for the night, having the a prison of a ate : choose neg Page recol- a hom- vot ine ne de -/4 is pos the Parlia- 6 hue Ge ia J to ency, an excellent pillow for a or . He Piankod’ Providence for having sent this mable idea; but as he was preparing to cross the pdlace- , for the p f entering the’ tortuous laby- 1 of the city, h its ancient winding streets, eo Ax ong gs Ye Barillerie, La Vielle-Draperie, La Savaterie, La Juiverie. and others, still standing, with their lage nine a high, he saw the proces- _sion of ny Pope of the Fools coming out of the palace, am cin —— the co waka Winn with loud pho the glare se pragag hts Pare ano and his own pen of music, This sight tore open afresh the wounds his self-love; et seek te his heels. In the keen mor- tification of his atic miscarriage, everything tlat reminded him of the festival held that day touched him to the qnick. ‘ . ' He resolved to make for the Pont St. Michel. ys ware running to ani fro legting off squibs and crackers. “Cates the fireworks!’ @aculated Gringoire, - he o the bent. his steps toward the Pont-au-Change. > houses, the end of the bridge were attached three sarge of cauyas, with likenesses of the King, the Dauphin, and" of Flanders; and six smaller, on which were portrayed the Duke of Austria, and the Cardinal of Bourbon, and Monsieur de Beaujeu, and Madame Jeanue of France, and Monsieur the Bastard of Bourbon, and [ ktow not whom besides—the whole lighted by torches. A crowd of spectators was admir- ing these performances. — ‘Happy painter, Jehan Fourbault!” said Gringoire with a deep sigh, as he turned his back on the pro- ductions of that artist. There was a street just before him; it appeared to be so dark and so deserted that he hoped there to be out of hearing as Well as out of sight of all the festivities; he entered it. Presently his foot struck against some obstacle; he stunrbled and fell. It was the bole of the May-tree, which the clerks of the Bazoche had placed. in the poe at the door ofa President of the Parliament, in, Honor of the day. 7 . d “?hundens of applause arose river. Leaving behind him’ the ¢ court of the Parliament, and pursuing by La Esmeralda ?” said thé high wall of the king's gardens, up Gracious strand, where he was an - | the western point of the city, and surveyed for some , berless “ladders” of the provoste, the bishop, the time the islet of the cattle-ferry, which has since given | po tt the abbots, the priors, possessing the bey aD stock-still at. | from it. ‘time and the cities of the present day is that now the ~~ THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME, Market, the hideous Montfaucon, the barrier of the Sergens, the Place-aux-Chats, the gate of 8t. Denis, Cham peaux, the ‘of Baudets, and the gate of bt. e with fortitude this new misfortune; he picked himself up, and pursued his way Vag? oad ¥ me and ¢ anently im- the unpaved | us for executions, ~ of the num- e-~lvep in mud, he arrived at bedded in the pavement—tosay no | & place td the Pont Neuf with its bronzehorse. Tie islet | of life and death, orf the judicial drownings | peared to him, in the dark, like a black mass, beyond | river SeIne—it is consolatory, I say, to think that, at the white narrow strip of water which. separated him the present day, this ancient ‘soveréi ount: By the glimmer of 4 faint light might be in- fendal society, stripped successively of pieces | distinctly discerned the kind of cabin in the shape of a | its armor, its luxury of bee-hive which afforded shelter to the ferryman during | spirit and tendency, its the night. . ‘new leathern bed to be made every five years at the “ Happy ferryman !’’ thought Gringoire—thon dream- Grand Chatelet, almost outlawed from our cities and estmnot ot glory, thou -writest no epithalamiums! what | our land, hunted from code to code, ey ery to the are the marriages of kings and duchesses of | to place. should have im our immense but an Burgundy! While I, a poet, am hooted, and, shiver | ignominious corner of ‘the Greve, but one 5 with cold, and owe twelve sous, aud the sole of my | furtive, timid, shamefaced guillotine, wh mee shoe is so thin that it might serve for the horn of a seems as if fearful of being taken ii the fact, so a lantern: Thanks to thee, ferryman! thy cabin re-| does it hurry away after striking the fatal blow. yw» —— the - ane saan me Bg cms te aegis a ly Pe sees ‘ ; ‘t .. e was awakened from most lyric ecstacy b bite. 4% 7 mm yric ecstacy by CHAPTER. UL. oy. cc ou os 0 the happy cabin. It was the ferryman taking hisshare| ~ © © in the rejoicings of the day. The report made Grin- gdire shudder. : ' MAecursed festival!” cried he, ‘‘ wilt thou pursue me whithersoever I go, even to the cabin of the ferryman?”’ He then looked ut tue S-ine flowing at his fect, and a horrible temptation came over him. Ah!” said he, “how Decigawa d-I drown myself, only the water is 80 CO "Tmgnl 5 " . He then formed a desperate resolution. Since he } found it impossible to escape the Pope of Fools, the paintings of Jelian, Fourbault,, the May-trees, the squibs, and the petards, he determined to proceed to the ane, fps pe te penetrate Bets i oo am | goire, Jike.a, genuine dramatic poe very heart of the rejoivings.. ‘At any rate,” thought | 5" 88, 4 ey . he, “I shail be-able co war us at the bouifine, “ane Soliloquies ; “there they are, shutting ie net dr he ar e! And yet Tam in great need of @ cb ihe puenanee r he pr te poe ents of dhe co} chitimey-corner. My shoes leak, and all those infer ation provided at the public larder of the city. niills showerin upon mé into te atti} ' devil fetch the pee of Paris and his mill : | h expect to dé oblice to turn miller somé da | THE PLACE DE GREVE. oti If he needs nothing but my m tor” , N G@ but a scarcely Rote noe vestige of the | I give it to him, and to his cathedral, ar his mills, Place de Greve, as it then existed, uowW remains. This | with all my heart. Stop a moment, let’s see if these is the charming turret which oecupics the north angle | boobies will strecr -off presently, But what ws Latte the Place, and which, already buried Beneath the doing thére, 1 want to know? Warming th es— fine amusement! Gaping at the bonfire—pretty si forséoth ’. as ia > Lm tbat Ou looking more closely he perceived that the circ» was much larger than it ueceded toshave been, hari tu persons comporing it been.desirous of warming tach Selves at the king's fire; and that the, spectators was net drawn together solely by the be .«45 of the husxired blazing fagots. In an ex @ Spae ‘fizure to themselves the general aspect of the edifice to leit open between the crowd and the | here was a. which it belonged, aud recompose iff imapination the | young female dancing. dod giis the explosion of a double petard, suddenly fired irom . THE POET PUZZLED. WHEN Pierre Gringoire reached. the sr he was quite benumbed with e@ had the Pont-wux-Meuniers, to avoid, . Pont-au-Cliange and the . of Jehan | but the wheglsof all the biahon Ae hal splast him soUnmercitully as he passed. his frock, drenched; it scemed,amoreover 8 the fa ire ¢ lis play had rendered him still mere chilly than eve Accordingly, he. hastened toward, the bor | bliewed magnificently in the middle of. the | large assemblage of people formed a ire e “ Cursed Parisians !” said he«t0./5 } ignoble plaster that encases the fine outlines of its sculptures, will Petes G soon disappear, enyul‘ed by the inundation of new buildings which is so rapidly ie i | up all the ancient structures of Paris. ; Those who, like ourselves, cannot pass tljrough the Place de Greve‘without bestowing a look of pity awd sympatiry on that poor turret, cooped up between two paltry erections of the time of Louis XV., may easily entire ancient Gothic Place of the fifteenth century. Whether this young femalerwas a , ora. It wus then,as at present, an irregular trapezium, }fairy, or an angel, Gringaire, skeptical her and rdered on one side by the quay, and on the three | satirical poet as he was; could not at it moment decide, so Completely was he faseina a vision. Shewas not tall, though she appeared to be s frem the slenderness and elegande of her sh that by b thers by a series of lofty, narrow; and gloomy houses. By day, thie spectator mi;ht admire the variety of these ‘edifices, covered with sculptures and earving, and ex- iting complete specimens. of the various styles of | complexion was dark, butit was éasy to di domestic architecture of the Middle Ayes, of the period daylight her skin mast have the golden tint between the eleventh and the fifteenth century ; from |) ot the Roman and Andalusian women. ww rey the square window, which had tw A begun to super- | too, was Andalusian. She danced, whirled, sede th Py ne Rees to the semi-cirenlar Roman | round, on an old Persian carpet, carelessly spread om arch, which had been supplanted bythe pointed, and | the pavement; and every time her radiant face which was still extant in the ground-floor ot that | before you as she turned, her large, black eyes ancient house of Roland’s Tower, at the augle of the | lightning. . fur. siseds eft” Place next to the Seine, by the Rue de la Tannerie. « By Every eye was fixed wpon her, every ae : night, all that could be distinguished of that of | andin truth, while she was thus | what with buildings was the dark jugged outline of the robts | the sound of the tambourine, which her Bump stretching their chain of acute angles around the Place. ' exquisitely shaped arms held aboye her head, he For one of the radical differences of the cities of that | of fe without folds, her myeties robe whic with the rapidity $s rv amotions, her bare egs which her ‘etic places, whereas then it was o finely turned hen discovered, her black hair, her eyes.o fro face the ‘streets and th les. During the last two eenturies the houses have turned round. : In the center of the east side of the Place ros» a |. heavy and hybrid structure in three compartments. was a supernatural creature. “Verily,” thought Gringoire Mal am It was called by three names; which explain its | At that moment one of the tresses of the ~ history, its destipation, and its architecture; the | hair got loose, and a -piece of brass ¥ had been Dauphin's house, beeause Charles V. whem Dawphin | fastened to it drooped to the ground. * no,” said had resided there; La Marchandise, becanse it served | lie, “ "tis @ gipsy ! ‘The illusion Was at’ an’ for the Hotel de Ville; and the Pillar House, from the She began dancing agtin. She picked u row of massive pillars which supported its three | grou: ' two swords, which she balanced on tl sories. The city there found all that is requisite for | upon her forehead, anflimade them turn ro way a good city like Paris; a chapel for saying prayers in; | while she turned the other. She was, in fact, ‘ a hall for giving andience and occasionally snubbiny | neither more nor Jess. * But though the spell won aie: the servants of the king; and in the lofts an arsenal | solved, still the whole séene was not without fascina- wellstored with artillery. For the citizens ofParis | tion and charm for Gringoire ; the bonfire threw’ a know tuat it. is not sufficientin every conjucture to +crude, red, trembling ult on the Mealy wy bes plead and to pray tor the tranchiscs of the city, and | and on the tawny brow of the girl, and, at th extrem therefore they always keep in reserve @ good rusty | ity of the Place, cust « faint tinge, mingled ‘with’ arquebusc or two in a loft in the Hotel de Ville. | wavering shadows, upon the ancient, black, and fur- The Greve wore at that time the same sinister as- | rowed facade of the Maison-anx-Piliers om the one pect that it still retains, owing to the unpleasant | band, and upon the stove arms of the gibbet on the ideas which it excites; and the gloomy Hotel*de Ville ;other.. =, . ; PR ; | of Dominique Bocador, which occupies thé site of the | Among the thousand faces to which this 1 com- Pillar House. A permanent gibbet und a pifory, or, .munieated a scarlet hue, there was one which seem! as they were called in those days, “a justice anda | to be more deeply absorbed in the contemplation oi th. laider, ’’ placed side by side in the middle of the | dancer than. any of the others. It was the face oi « pavement, conferred no particular attractions on this |Mman, austere, calm, and sombre, This man, whoe+ fatal spot. Where so many human beings full of | dress was concealéd by the surroun crowd, #}- health and life have been suddenly cut: off ; where peared )to be no more than thirty-five years of age’; bo fifty vears later was venerated that fever of St, Vallier, was, nevertheless, bald, and had merely at his temples that disease produced by fear of the scaffold, the most a few tufts of thin and already gray hair, His ample monstrous of all diseases, because it did not proceed | and lofty brow began to be furrowed with wrinkles; from God butfrom man. - . _ | but in bis deep-sunk eyes there wag an expression of it is consolatory, be it observed, by the way, to think extraordinary youth, ardent ‘Jife, and profound pas- that the punishment of death, which three hundred sion. He kept them intently fixed on the Bohemian ; years ago still encumbered the Greve, the Halles. the and, while the lively girl of sixteen was delighting all Place uphine, the Cross o: Trahoir, the Swine the other spectators by her dancing and her capers EGOmicboo @)) his way along | Jacques, with ite iron wheels, its. stone gibbets, and ite us a penal e, for. which it caused a . lave ~ ’ “itis a si Ta nymph, a goddess, a bacchauul of Mount us {” , (Elo)