The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART1- BOOK 2 CHAPTER 3 pps

... tonto." The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 3 Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea Two men on board the craft were absorbed in thought the old man, and the skipper of the hooker, who ... mistaken for the chief of the band. The captain was occupied by the sea, the old man by the sky. The former did not lift his eyes from the...

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... When alight it burned before the Virgin, and at the same time illumined the sea a beacon doing duty as a taper. The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 CHAPTER 2 Left Alone This is what ... entered the vessel, and, as he jumped in, kicked back the plank, which fell into the sea, a stroke of the hatchet cut the moorings, the helm was put up, the vessel...

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... nevertheless he was going nowhere. He hastened without an object a fugitive before Fate. The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 CHAPTER 3 Alone The child remained motionless on the rock, ... The same silence reigned in the vessel. No cry from the child to the men no farewell from the men to the child. There was on both sides a mute acceptance of the wide...

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... a wood, now on a strand, now down a well. The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 CHAPTER 4 Questions What kind of band was it which had left the child behind in its flight? Were those ... hunted down the Comprachicos. The impulse of pursuit was given. There is nothing like belling the cat. From this time forward the desire to seize them made rivalry and emulatio...

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... horror; the iron, rust; the plague, miasma; the flowers, perfume. His slow disintegration was a toll paid to all a toll of the corpse to the storm, to the rain, to the dew, to the reptiles, to the ... realities, the place, the hour, the mist, the mournful sea, the cloudy turmoils on the distant horizon, added to the effect of this figure, and made it seem en...

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... them. The wind was for him, the chain against him. It was as if black deities were mixing themselves up in the fray. The hurricane was in the battle. As the dead man turned himself about, the ... signal: they all precipitated themselves upon it. There was a cloud of wings, then all their feathers closed up, and the hanged man disappeared under a swarm of black blister...

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... the child solved with an instinct The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 1 CHAPTER 7 The North Point of Portland He ran until he was breathless, at random, desperate, over the plain into the ... snow there was nothing like a roof. The child went on, and the waste continued bare as far as eye could see. There had never been a human habitation on the tableland. It w...

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... blurred them; the mask of shadow was over their faces. They were sketches in the night. There were eight of them, and there were seemingly among them one or two women, hard to recognize under the ... their leathern jackets with lace. They do not mend their rags, but they embroider them. Vivacity profound and superb! The Basques are, like the Greeks, children of the sun; while...

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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 ... 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...

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... 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...

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