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... 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 ... 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 swe...

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... was a Basque of Guipuzcoa. One sailor was a 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 ... the reaches of the inlet of Bages, and to draw the drag-net full of fish over the salt sands of St. Lucie. He was of the race who wear a red cap,...

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... VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 4 Well-matched Lovers Ursus being a philosopher understood. He approved of the fascination of Dea. He said, The blind see the invisible. He said, Conscience is vision. ... first, from his family, if his family existed, and then from humanity. When an infant, they had made him a ruin; of this ruin Nature had repossessed herself, as she...

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... 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,...

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... forward, separating his tall form from the mast. From the depth of the night's darkness came the toll of the bell. The doctor resumed, "There is in the midst of the sea, halfway between ... hands, to the warped riders, and to all the rugged projections of the stumps of the masts. From time to time they listened. The toll of the bell came...

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... which no wind The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 11 The Caskets It was indeed the Caskets light. A lighthouse of the nineteenth century is a high cylinder of masonry, surmounted ... than the entrance of a port. They could hear the crackling of the pile on high within the iron grating. A ghastly purple illuminated the storm; the c...

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... But there is never a thunder-clap during the snowstorm. True, the ship has the bandage round her eyes; darkness is knotted about her; she is like one prepared to The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO ... however, they began to hope again. Such are the insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moment...

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... cape? There were no means of doing it. Just as they had seen, first the Caskets, then Ortach, rise before them, they now saw the point of Aurigny, all of steep rock. It was like a number of giants, ... magnified by the mist; the fast decreasing distance seemed more inevitable they were touching the skirts of the race! The first fold which seized them would drag the...

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... founder." The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 16 The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence The hurricane had just stopped short. There was no longer in the air sou'-wester ... until the cessation of the tempest. They said to themselves, "It is all over this time." Suddenly they found that all was indeed over. One of the...

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... 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 u...

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