... 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...
... that of a man, too large for that of a child.
It was probably the foot of a woman. Beyond that mark was another, then another,
then another. The footprints followed each other at the distance ... 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 seek the
The...
... voluptuous way of 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 ... fashion to the
point of knowing Hebrew. The Duchess Josiana Latinized. Then (another fine
thing) she was secretly a Catholic; after the manner of her uncle, C...
... 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, the w...
... 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 kicked the stool forward and made the ... peace. They were warm. The nakedness of their bodies, embraced each in
each, amalgamated with the virginity of their souls. They were there as in the nest
of the abys...
... 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 towards...
... 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...
... 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...
... part of it, and they could not see him.
The voice spoke again,
"Listen!"
All were silent.
Then did they distinctly hear through the darkness the toll of a bell.
The Man Who ... Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 8
Nix et Nox
The characteristic of the snowstorm is its blackness. Nature's habitual aspect
during a storm, the eart...