Эжен Сю. The Infant's Skull; Or, The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
PART I. THE CASTLE OF COMPIEGNE
CHAPTER I. THE FOUNTAIN OF THE HINDS
CHAPTER II. THE IDIOT
CHAPTER III. LOUIS THE DO-NOTHING
CHAPTER IV. A ROYAL COUPLE
CHAPTER V. THE FOUNDING OF A DYNASTY
CHAPTER VI. YVON AND MARCELINE
CHAPTER VII. THE STOCK OF JOEL
PART II. THE END OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER I. THE APOCALYPTIC FRENZY
CHAPTER II. YVON THE FORESTER'S HUT
CHAPTER III. ON THE BUCK'S TRACK
CHAPTER IV. GREGORY THE HOLLOW-BELLIED
CHAPTER V. THE DELIRIUM OF STARVATION
CHAPTER VI. THE FLIGHT TO ANJOU
EPILOGUE
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A spring of living water, known in the neighborhood by the appropriate name of the "Fountain of the Hinds," empties its trickling stream under the oaks of one of the most secret recesses of the forest of Compiegne. Stags and hinds, deers and does, bucks and she-goats come to water at the spot, leaving behind them numerous imprints of their steps on the borders of the rill, or on the sandy soil of the narrow paths that these wild animals have worn across the copse.
One early morning in the year 987, the sun being up barely an hour, a woman, plainly dressed and breathing hard with rapid walking, stepped out of one of these paths and stopped at the Fountain of the Hinds. She looked in all directions in surprise as if she expected to have been preceded by some one at the solitary rendezvous. Finding her hopes deceived, she made an impatient motion, sat down, still out of breath, on a rock near the fountain, and threw off her cape.
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"Should that misfortune arrive," the Queen proceeded after a pause, "there is one thing that alarms me, Hugh, and on which I desire your advice."
