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NOTRE DAME BE PARIS
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consolation, that she could still dance before she was hung. She was then accorded the lawful and civilized relief of languishing a while in jail.
Frollo, in the guise of a possible confessor, was admitted to her cell and permitted to gloat over the scantily clad child crushed with chains upon damp straw near the jug and loaf that constituted her daily meal. He appeared before her with his black cloak wrapped about his
rabble that had gathered around Quasimodo on the pillory. She was there transferred temporarily, as was the custom with unshriven condemned, from the custody of constituted authority to that of the organic body professing allegiance to Christianity. Stumbling barefoot from the tumbril to the doors, the hangman's rope about her neck, she was at the entrance of the cathedral, when Quasimodo raised a cry, "Sanctuary!"
ESMERALDA IS TORTURED
face, a horrible specter, and renewed his protestations of love. She rejected them with spirit and replied that he only inspired her with horror. He attempted to embrace her, even to kiss her lacerated feet, and besought her to have some consideration for his suffering soul, but she repulsed him with all the strength remaining in her enfeebled body, and dismissed him with loathing, preferring death to his favor.
The condemned girl, having refused a religious confessor, was next taken in a tumbril to the doors of Notre Dame and insulted by much the same
seized the condemned girl and bore her away in his arms before the eyes of the astonished gathering, they, too, taking up the cry, "Sanctuary!" ' ' Sanctuary ! ' ' Within the bounds of Notre Dame, the condemned creature could not be touched by the executioners, all temporal jurisdiction expiring on the threshold.
Quasimodo, having obtained a brief respite from the gallows for the sole creature who had befriended him in torture, carried her to his own den in the tower of the church, gave her food, rest, and even flowers, armed himself with a long knife and lay