... Swift, to take the place
of the Rota, founded by Milton.
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VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 4
The Leader of Fashion
Josiana was bored. The fact is so natural as to ...
chances of the betting, jumped over the barrier, entered the ring, broke the ropes,
pulled down the stakes, and violently interposed in the battle. Lord Davi...
...
remains ignored. The name of Barkilphedro has not reached as far as history. All
the moles are not caught by the mole-trapper.
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 9
Hate ... not avow.
In the completely wicked man this exists in hideous perfection. So much the worse
for others, signifies so much the better for himself. The shadows of...
... Bolingbroke.
III.
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VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 5
Queen Anne
I.
Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England. An ordinary woman was
Queen Anne. She ... themselves.
They fight. Whose the glory? The king's. They pay. Whose the generosity? The
king's. Then the people love him for being so rich. The king rec...
...
like to see their servants lamed. They are displeased if you chip a porcelain jar on
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VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 10
The Flame Which Would Be Seen if Man
Were Transparent ... on the table, and those with their paws under it, and the insolent who give
and the idiots who accept, and to spit it all back again in the face of Provid...
... lessen himself
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VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 11
Barkilphedro in Ambuscade
To find the vulnerable spot in Josiana, and to strike her there, was, for all the
causes ... noticed the plural.
Another time, when the queen was leaving the chapel, Barkilphedro kept pretty
close to her Majesty, behind the two grooms of the almonry. Lor...
... there were not one or two amongst them
who were women in male attire; a certain sign of high birth.
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VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 12
Scotland, Ireland, and England ... bulls,
and dogs; it was beyond the line of the farthest houses, by the side of the ruins of the Priory of
Saint Mary Overy, dismantled by Henry VIII. The wind was n...
... sacred;
speech was free, the press was free. In the public street men said what they listed;
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VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 1
Lord Clancharlie
I.
There was, in those ... they are blind. Has not the blind
man his dog? Only the people have a lion, the king, who consents to act the dog.
How kind of him! But why are the people i...
... Majesty the two grooms of the
almonry, who are priests, and to prevent the approach of doctors without
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PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 2
Lord David Dirry-Moir
I.
Lord ... salary of 26 0. Under him were the five
coachmen of the king, the five postilions of the king, the five grooms of the king,
the twelve footmen of t...
...
hanging in the chimney of the wooden house built in the island, and left by the
Dutchmen, who were all dead: and that the chimney was built of a barrel with the
end knocked out, sunk into the roof." ... take it to the Lord High Admiral of
England, under pain of the gallows. The admiral entrusts the opening of such
bottles to an officer, who presents the c...