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"La buona mancia!" chanted the cripple in the bowl. And the lame man took up the musical phrase by repeating: "Un pedaso de pan!" Gringoire stopped up his ears. "Oh, tower of Babel!" he exclaimed. He set out to run. The blind man ran! The lame man ran! The cripple in the bowl ran!
This living tripod saluted him as he passed, but stopping his hat on a level with Gringoire's chin, like a shaving dish, while he shouted in the latter's ears: "Senor cabellero, para comprar un pedaso de pan!"* * Give me the means to buy a bit of bread, sir. "It appears," said Gringoire, "that this one can also talk; but 'tis a rude language, and he is more fortunate than I if he understands it."
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