The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 9 docx

... 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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... 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 ... 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; Gwynpla...

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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, the eart...

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... The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 9 The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea The skipper, at the helm, burst out laughing, "A bell! that's good. We are on the larboard ... were they? At what distance from the buoy? The sound of the bell had frightened them; its silence terrified them. The north-wester drove them forward in perhaps a fa...

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... burned doggedly, and 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 ... lanterns. The building which encloses and sustains this In place of the skipper, who was the pilot, remained the chief, who was the captain. The Basques all kn...

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... prepared to The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO BOOK 2 CHAPTER 13 Face to Face with Night Again was the hooker running with the shadow into immeasurable darkness. The Matutina, escaped from the Caskets, ... drifted towards the other. The poor wretches on board, who had for a moment believed themselves saved, relapsed into their agony. The destruction they ha...

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... the wind. The breath of the storm had changed its direction. The wave had played with them; now it was the wind's turn. They had saved themselves from the Caskets. Off Ortach it was the ... two; the Caskets, Ortach, and Aurigny are three. The phenomenon of the horizon being invaded by the rocks was thus repeated with the grand monotony of the abyss. The batt...

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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 ... ship; they would be rescued. The worst was over; they were re-entering life. The important feat was to have been able to keep afloat until the cessation of the t...

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... sailors. They took the luggage, and threw it over the gunwale. They carried up the bales and cast them into the sea. Thus they emptied the cabin. The lantern, the cap, the barrels, the sacks, the ... 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 co...

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