... The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 1
BOOK 3
CHAPTER 4
Another Form of Desert
It was Weymouth which he had just entered. Weymouth then was not the
respectable and ... same reason they had
not yet designed on the slope of the green hill towards the east, fashioned flat on
the soil by cutting away the turf and leaving the bare chalk to the view, th...
... Suppositions were possible. The probability of
violence inflicted on Gwynplaine when an infant was hinted at, but for Gwynplaine
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 4
Well-matched Lovers ... madly in love with Dea.
There is the invisible eye, the spirit, and the visible eye, the pupil. He saw her with
the visible eye. Dea was dazzled by the ideal;...
...
VICTOR HUGO
PART 1
BOOK 3
CHAPTER 1
Chesil
The storm was no less severe on land than on sea. The same wild enfranchisement
of the elements had taken place around the abandoned child. The ... ossifrage.
The summits exist no longer where the labbes and the skua gulls used to flock
together, soaring, like the envious, to sully high places. In vain might you...
... souls in the
darkness.
The mother lay there, her back to the snow, her face to the night; but perhaps at the
moment when the little boy stripped himself to clothe the little girl, the mother saw ... under the brown
hair, the almost indignant knitting of the eyebrows, the pinched nostrils, the closed
eyelids, the lashes glued together by the rime, and from th...
... dragging out the end of her phrases was
like the creeping of a tiger's paws in the jungle.
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 1
BOOK 3
CHAPTER 3
The Duchess Josiana
Towards 17 05, although ... of Corneille, the septuagenarian, to a girl of twenty "Marquise, si mon
The advantage of prudes is that they disorganize the human race. They deprive...
...
desert him."
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 1
BOOK 3
CHAPTER 5
Misanthropy Plays Its Pranks
A strange and alarming grinding of teeth reached him through the darkness.
It was ... lose the use of them this
time. Dress yourself!"
The child put on the shirt, and the man slipped the knitted jacket over it.
"Now "
The man kick...
... to die and leave a
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 1
BOOK 3
CHAPTER 6
The Awaking
The beginning of day is sinister. A sad pale light penetrated the hut. It was the
frozen dawn. That ... suck.
Then the sun arose. He was level with the horizon. His red rays gleamed through
the glass, and struck against the face of the infant, which was turned towa...
... however, for the group
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 3
CHAPTER 4
Contraries Fraternize in Hate
Success is hateful, especially to those whom it overthrows. It is rare that the eaten ... concordance, the rise here,
the fall there. Theatres experience the effect of tides: they rise in one only on
condition of falling in another. The swarming fo...
... The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 1
Superhuman Laws
The snowstorm is one of the mysteries of the ocean. It is the most obscure of things
meteorological ... higher in the East than in the
West? Why is the contrary true of the Atlantic? Why, under the Equator, are they
highest in the middle of the sea? Wherefore these deviations in the...
... The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 2
Our First Rough Sketches Filled In
While the hooker was in the gulf of Portland, there was but little sea on; the ocean,
if ... Basque of
the northern slope of the Pyrenees, the other was of the southern slope that is to
say, they were of the same nation, although the first was French and the latter
Spa...