... The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 17 The Last Resource There was a hole in the keel. A leak had been sprung. When it happened no one could have said. Was it when they ... Thus they emptied the cabin. The lantern, the cap, the barrels, the sacks, the bales, and the water-butts, the pot of soup, all went over into the waves. They unscrewed the nuts of the iron ... wind and the wave, vicious in its threat, the grin of the waterspout, the foaming appetite of the breakers it was as if the wretched beings had under them the black yawn of the infinite. They...