Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

BOOK FOURTH. CHAPTER 3. IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE. (continued)

To such an extent was this disease that for those who know that Quasimodo has existed, Notre-Dame is to-day deserted, inanimate, dead. One feels that something has disappeared from it. That immense body is empty; it is a skeleton; the spirit has quitted it, one sees its place and that is all. It is like a skull which still has holes for the eyes, but no longer sight.