the boy who lived harry potter chapter 1

... 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 left the shore, and the child ... at the risk of throwing him into the water, got in before him, and passed on; the fourth drove him back with his fist and followed the third; the fifth, who was the chief, bounded into rather ... voice, he who appeared chief of the six, and who had the spangles on his tatters. The child rushed towards the plank in order to be the first to pass. As he placed his foot on it, two of the men...

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... 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 widening distance between them. ... later the hooker gained the neck of the crook and entered it. Against the clear sky the masthead was visible, rising above the split blocks between which the strait wound as between two walls. The ... walls. The truck wandered to the summit of the rocks, The sea, like the land, was white the one with snow, the other with foam. There is nothing so melancholy as the light produced by this double...

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... 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 emulation among the police ... disperse. The law acting against the Comprachicos determined, not only the Comprachicos, but vagabonds of all sorts, on a general flight. It was the devil take the hindmost. The greater number of the ... prove a child their own. How came you by this child? how were they to prove that they held it from God? The child became a peril they got rid of it. To fly unencumbered was easier; the parents...

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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 enormous. The mass linked to the chain ... right, at the point of the plain nearest the cliff. There was on the eminence a shape which in the mist looked like a tree. The child had just heard a noise in this direction, which was the noise...

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... birds crowded on the gibbet; not one was on the corpse. They were talking among themselves. The croaking was frightful. The howl, the whistle and the roar, are signs of life; the croak is a satisfied ... 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 blisters struggling in the ... service in 17 88; in 17 90, however, they were obliged to replace it by another. The Egyptians used to value the mummy of the king; a plebeian mummy can also, it appears, be of service. The wind,...

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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 ... recognize the road. On the plain of Portland there are, here and there, raised strips of land, abruptly ended by the shore and cut perpendicular to the sea. The wandering child reached one of these ... 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 was at the foot of the...

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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 the Valencian ... December, 16 89, and all the month of January, 16 90. Hence the disastrous cold weather, which caused that winter to be noted as "memorable to the poor," on the margin of the old Bible in the...

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... 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 swell of the ocean? ... 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 ... action of wind and wave; yet in the air there is a force which is not the wind, and in the waters a force which is not the wave. That force, both in the air and in the water, is effluvium. Air...

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... 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 Spanish. The Basques ... native of the waterside village of Gruissan, on the southern side of the Clappe, a bargeman rather than a mariner, but accustomed to work the reaches of the inlet of Bages, and to draw the drag-net ... departure was to them a deliverance. All the time the hooker was in the gulf, the sky, although threatening, did not frown enough to cause the fugitives any uneasiness. They were flying, they were...

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... 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; Gwynplaine, by the real. Gwynplaine ... goodness had lent its aid. In the poor fallen one, suddenly raised up, by the side of the repulsive, it had placed the attractive; on the barren shoal it had set the loadstone; it had caused ... of the fascination of Dea. He said, The blind see the invisible. He said, Conscience is vision. Then, looking at Gwynplaine, he murmured, Semi-monster, but demi-god. Gwynplaine, on the other...

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... in the tempest, a loud solemn voice rose from the other end of the vessel, saying, "Silence!" All turned their heads. The darkness was thick, and the doctor was leaning against the ... 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 Laughs ... with the sea of fifteen degrees; but her good bellied keel adhered to the water as if glued to it. The keel resisted the grasp of the hurricane. The lantern at the prow cast its light ahead. The...

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... 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 fatal course. They felt themselves ... crew. Helpless they clung to the standing rigging, to the transoms, to the shank painters, to the gaskets, to the broken planks, the protruding nails of which tore their hands, to the warped riders, ... 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 Portland and the Channel Islands,...

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... 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 know the mountain and the sea. They are ... driving the hooker on the Caskets. They were nearing them; no evasion was possible. They drifted rapidly towards the reef; they felt that they were getting into shallow waters; the lead, if they ... have been thrown into the water by the shock. There is variety in struggles with storms. After the hurricane, the shoal; after the wind, the rock. First the intangible, then the immovable, to be...

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... drifted towards the other. The poor wretches on board, who had for a moment believed themselves saved, relapsed into their agony. The destruction they had left behind faced them again. The reef reappeared ... strike on the Ortach is to be crushed into powder. Nevertheless, there was one chance. On a straight frontage such as that of the Ortach neither the wave nor the cannon ball can ricochet. The operation ... on the folds of a huge black sheet. In time of storm it awaits the stroke of the axe, which is the thunder-clap. But there is never a thunder-clap during the snowstorm. True, the ship has the...

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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 battles of the ocean have the ... been their friend. Now it was the wind. The wind had suddenly veered from north to south. The sou'-wester had succeeded the nor'-wester. The current is the wind in the waters; the...

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