scrapes them down; then the populace arrives and demolishes them. Thus, with the exception of the fragile memory which the author of this book here consecrates to it, there remains to-day nothing whatever of the mysterious word engraved within the gloomy tower of Notre-Dame,—nothing of the destiny which it so sadly summed up. The man who wrote that word upon the wall disappeared from the midst of the generations of man many centuries ago; the word, in its turn, has been effaced from the wall of the church; the church will, perhaps, itself soon disappear from the face of the earth. It is upon this word that this book is founded. March, 1831. CONTENTS PREFACE. VOLUME I. BOOK FIRST. CHAPTER I. THE GRAND HALL. CHAPTER II. PIERRE GRINGOIRE. CHAPTER III. MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL. CHAPTER IV. MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE. CHAPTER V. QUASIMODO. CHAPTER VI. ESMERALDA. BOOK SECOND. CHAPTER I. FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA. CHAPTER II. THE PLACE DE GRÈVE. CHAPTER III. KISSES FOR BLOWS. CHAPTER IV. THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING. CHAPTER V. RESULT OF THE DANGERS. CHAPTER VI. THE BROKEN JUG. CHAPTER VII. A BRIDAL NIGHT. BOOK THIRD. CHAPTER I. NOTRE-DAME. CHAPTER II. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS. BOOK FOURTH. CHAPTER I. GOOD SOULS. CHAPTER II. CLAUDE FROLLO. CHAPTER III. _IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE_. CHAPTER IV. THE DOG AND HIS MASTER. CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO. CHAPTER VI. UNPOPULARITY. BOOK FIFTH. CHAPTER I. _ABBAS BEATI MARTINI_. CHAPTER II. THIS WILL KILL THAT. BOOK SIXTH. CHAPTER I. AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY. CHAPTER II. THE RAT-HOLE. CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE. CHAPTER IV. A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER. CHAPTER V. END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE. VOLUME II. BOOK SEVENTH. CHAPTER I. THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE’S SECRET TO A GOAT. CHAPTER II. A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. CHAPTER III. THE BELLS. CHAPTER IV. ἈΝÁΓΚΗ. CHAPTER V. THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK. CHAPTER VI. THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE. CHAPTER VII. THE MYSTERIOUS MONK. CHAPTER VIII. THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER. BOOK EIGHTH. CHAPTER I. THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF. CHAPTER II. CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF. CHAPTER III. END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF. CHAPTER IV. _LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA_—LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER HERE. CHAPTER V. THE MOTHER. CHAPTER VI. THREE HUMAN HEARTS DIFFERENTLY CONSTRUCTED. BOOK NINTH. CHAPTER I. DELIRIUM. CHAPTER II. HUNCHBACKED, ONE EYED, LAME. CHAPTER III. DEAF. CHAPTER IV. EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL. CHAPTER V. THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR. CHAPTER VI. CONTINUATION OF THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR. BOOK TENTH. CHAPTER I. GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.—RUE DES BERNARDINS. CHAPTER II. TURN VAGABOND. CHAPTER III. LONG LIVE MIRTH. CHAPTER IV. AN AWKWARD FRIEND. CHAPTER V. THE RETREAT IN WHICH MONSIEUR LOUIS OF FRANCE SAYS HIS PRAYERS. CHAPTER VI. LITTLE SWORD IN POCKET. CHAPTER VII. CHATEAUPERS TO THE RESCUE. BOOK ELEVENTH. CHAPTER I. THE LITTLE SHOE. CHAPTER II. THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE CLAD IN WHITE. (Dante.) CHAPTER III. THE MARRIAGE OF PHOEBUS. CHAPTER IV. THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO. NOTE. FOOTNOTES. VOLUME I. BOOK FIRST. CHAPTER I. THE GRAND HALL. Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal. The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day...