"Leave it to me", says the little hunchback. He has come in answer to the call out for a replacement for Notre Dame's chef bell ringer.
Brushing past the bystanders, without further ado he bounds up the long wooden staircase leading up to the large bell at the top of the cathedral's tallest tower. There, standing on an adjacent crossbeam, he reaches out for the rope to tilt the great bell towards himself. Once the bell's rim is in his hands, he lets it go.. The bell swings outwards in a great arc - its huge tone ringing out to the citizens that the fate of Paris is once more in safe hands - and then swings back, hitting Quasimodo square on the nose, dislodging him into the void. The bystanders gather around the hunchback's broken body, sprawled on the stone flags below.
"Does anybody know him?" asks one.
"I don't think I know him" says another, "but his face rings a bell".
Brushing past the bystanders, without further ado he bounds up the long wooden staircase leading up to the large bell at the top of the cathedral's tallest tower. There, standing on an adjacent crossbeam, he reaches out for the rope to tilt the great bell towards himself. Once the bell's rim is in his hands, he lets it go.. The bell swings outwards in a great arc - its huge tone ringing out to the citizens that the fate of Paris is once more in safe hands - and then swings back, hitting Quasimodo square on the nose, dislodging him into the void. The bystanders gather around the hunchback's broken body, sprawled on the stone flags below.
"Does anybody know him?" asks one.
"I don't think I know him" says another, "but his face rings a bell".
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