Notre Dame Author:Victor Hugo General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: Little Subjects: People with disabilities France Paris (France) Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Europe / France Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Special Needs Social Science / Handicapped Travel / Europe / France ... more » Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. PIERRE GRINGOIRE. However, while Jupiter was delivering his speech, the satisfaction, the admiration, unanimously excited by his costume were dissipated by his words; and when he arrived at that unlucky conclusion, " as soon as the most eminent cardinal is arrived we shall begin," his voice was lost in a thunder of hooting. " Begin at once ! The mystery! the mystery at once! " cried the people. And above all the other voices was heard that of Joannes de Molendino, piercing through the general uproar like the sound of the fife in a charivari at Nlmes. " Begin at once !" squeaked the scholar. " Down with Jupiter and the Cardinal de Bourbon !" vociferated Robin Poussepain and the other young clerks nestling in the window. " The morality directly !" repeated the crowd immediately ; " begin, begin ! The sack and the rope for the players and the cardinal! " Poor Jupiter, all haggard, aghast, pale under his rouge, let fall his thunderbolts, took his bicoquet in his hand; then, bowing and trembling, he stammered out, " His eminence -- the ambassadors -- the Lady Margaret of Flanders -- " He knew not what to say. But the fact was he was afraid lie should be hanged, -- hanged by the populace for waiting, or hanged by the cardinal for not having waited; on either hand he beheld an abyss. Happily, some one came forward to extricate him and t...« less