The novels, romances, and memoirs of Alphonse Daudet by Daudet Alphonse 1840-1897

Author:Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : Society of English and French Literature
Published: 1898-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

ready to cry as I used to do in the dormitory: " Get up, gentlemen ! " Then, when I found that I was in Jacques' room, I burst out laughing aloud, and began skipping madly about. What I had taken for the bell of Sarlande, was the bell of a neighboring factory, which rang harshly and ferociously like the one so far away. Still, the school-bell was even more metallic and cruel. Fortunately for me, it was five hundred miles off; and, however loud it rang, I ran no more risk of hearing it.

I went to the window and opened it. I expected to see below me the court of the seniors, with its melancholy trees and the man with the keys slinking round the walls.

Just as I opened the window, the midday bells were ringing everywhere. The tall tower of Saint-Germain first tolled the twelve strokes of the Angehis one after the other. Almost in my ears through the open casement, the great, heavy notes fell into Jacques' room, three by three, bursting as they fell, like sonorous bubbles, filling all the place with sound. The other Angelus of Paris answered the Angelus of Saint-Germain, in different keys. Beneath, the invisible Paris roared. I stayed there a moment looking at the domes, spires and towers glittering in the light; then, all at once, as the noise of the city reached me, I was overtaken by a mad, indescribable desire to plunge and roll in the noise and crowd, in that life, in those passions; and I said to myself rapturously: " Let me go to see Paris."

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