Toilers of the Sea

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Victor Hugo. Toilers of the Sea

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

PART I. – SIEUR CLUBIN

BOOK I. THE HISTORY OF A BAD REPUTATION

I. A WORD WRITTEN ON A WHITE PAGE

II. THE BÛ DE LA RUE

III. FOR YOUR WIFE: WHEN YOU MARRY

IV. AN UNPOPULAR MAN

V. MORE SUSPICIOUS FACTS ABOUT GILLIATT

VI. THE DUTCH SLOOP

VII. A FIT TENANT FOR A HAUNTED HOUSE

VIII. THE GILD-HOLM-'UR SEAT

BOOK II. MESS LETHIERRY

I. A TROUBLED LIFE, BUT A QUIET CONSCIENCE

II. A CERTAIN PREDILECTION

III. THE OLD SEA LANGUAGE

IV. ONE IS VULNERABLE WHERE ONE LOVES

BOOK III. DURANDE AND DÉRUCHETTE

I. PRATTLE AND SMOKE

II. THE OLD STORY OF UTOPIA

III. RANTAINE

IV. CONTINUATION OF THE STORY OF UTOPIA

V. THE DEVIL BOAT

VI. LETHIERRY'S EXALTATION

VII. THE SAME GODFATHER AND THE SAME PATRON SAINT

VIII "BONNIE DUNDEE"

IX. THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED RANTAINE'S CHARACTER

X. LONG YARNS

XI. MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTS

XII. AN ANOMALY IN THE CHARACTER OF LETHIERRY

XIII. THOUGHTLESSNESS ADDS A GRACE TO BEAUTY

BOOK IV. THE BAGPIPE

I. STREAKS OF FIRE ON THE HORIZON

II. THE UNKNOWN UNFOLDS ITSELF BY DEGREES

III. THE AIR "BONNIE DUNDEE" FINDS AN ECHO ON THE HILL

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V. A DESERVED SUCCESS HAS ALWAYS ITS DETRACTORS

VI. THE SLOOP "CASHMERE" SAVES A SHIPWRECKED CREW

VII. HOW AN IDLER HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO BE SEEN BY A FISHERMAN

BOOK V. THE REVOLVER

I. CONVERSATIONS AT THE JEAN AUBERGE

II. CLUBIN OBSERVES SOMEONE

III. CLUBIN CARRIES AWAY SOMETHING AND BRINGS BACK NOTHING

IV. PLEINMONT

V. THE BIRDS'-NESTERS

VI. THE JACRESSADE

VII. NOCTURNAL BUYERS AND MYSTERIOUS SELLERS

VIII. A "CANNON" OFF THE RED BALL AND THE BLACK

IX. USEFUL INFORMATION FOR PERSONS WHO EXPECT OR FEAR THE ARRIVAL OF LETTERS FROM BEYOND SEA

BOOK VI. THE DRUNKEN STEERSMAN AND THE SOBER CAPTAIN

I. THE DOUVRES

II. AN UNEXPECTED FLASK OF BRANDY

III. CONVERSATIONS INTERRUPTED

IV. CAPTAIN CLUBIN DISPLAYS ALL HIS GREAT QUALITIES

V. CLUBIN REACHES THE CROWNING-POINT OF GLORY

VI. THE INTERIOR OF AN ABYSS SUDDENLY REVEALED

VII. AN UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENT

BOOK VII. THE DANGER OF OPENING A BOOK AT RANDOM

I. THE PEARL AT THE FOOT OF THE PRECIPICE

II. MUCH ASTONISHMENT ON THE WESTERN COAST

III. A QUOTATION FROM THE BIBLE

PART II. – MALICIOUS GILLIATT

BOOK I. THE ROCK

I. THE PLACE WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO REACH, AND DIFFICULT TO LEAVE

II. A CATALOGUE OF DISASTERS

III. SOUND; BUT NOT SAFE

IV. A PRELIMINARY SURVEY

V. A WORD UPON THE SECRET CO-OPERATIONS OF THE ELEMENTS

VI. A STABLE FOR THE HORSE

VII. A CHAMBER FOR THE VOYAGER

VIII. IMPORTUNÆQUE VOLUCRES

IX. THE ROCK, AND HOW GILLIATT USED IT

X. THE FORGE

XI. DISCOVERY

XII. THE INTERIOR OF AN EDIFICE UNDER THE SEA

XIII. WHAT WAS SEEN THERE; AND WHAT PERCEIVED DIMLY

BOOK II. THE LABOUR

I. THE RESOURCES OF ONE WHO HAS NOTHING

II. WHEREIN SHAKESPEARE AND ÆSCHYLUS MEET

III. GILLIATT'S MASTERPIECE COMES TO THE RESCUE OF THAT OF LETHIERRY

IV. SUB RE

V. SUB UMBRA

VI. GILLIATT PLACES THE SLOOP IN READINESS

VII. SUDDEN DANGER

VIII. MOVEMENT RATHER THAN PROGRESS

IX. A SLIP BETWEEN CUP AND LIP

X. SEA-WARNINGS

XI. A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH

BOOK III. THE STRUGGLE

I. EXTREMES MEET

II. THE OCEAN WINDS

III. THE NOISES EXPLAINED

IV. TURBA TURMA

V. GILLIATT'S ALTERNATIVES

VI. THE COMBAT

BOOK IV. PITFALLS IN THE WAY

I. HE WHO IS HUNGRY IS NOT ALONE

II. THE MONSTER

III. ANOTHER KIND OF SEA-COMBAT

IV. NOTHING IS HIDDEN, NOTHING LOST

V. THE FATAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIX INCHES AND TWO FEET

VI. DE PROFUNDIS AD ALTUM

VII. THE APPEAL IS HEARD

PART III. – DÉRUCHETTE

BOOK I. NIGHT AND THE MOON

I. THE HARBOUR BELL

II. THE HARBOUR BELL AGAIN

BOOK II. GRATITUDE AND DESPOTISM

I. JOY SURROUNDED BY TORTURES

II. THE LEATHERN TRUNK

BOOK III. THE DEPARTURE OF THE CASHMERE

I. THE HAVELET NEAR THE CHURCH

II. DESPAIR CONFRONTS DESPAIR

III. THE FORETHOUGHT OF SELF-SACRIFICE

IV. FOR YOUR WIFE: WHEN YOU MARRY

V. THE GREAT TOMB

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Religion, Society, and Nature! these are the three struggles of man. They constitute at the same time his three needs. He has need of a faith; hence the temple. He must create; hence the city. He must live; hence the plough and the ship. But these three solutions comprise three perpetual conflicts. The mysterious difficulty of life results from all three. Man strives with obstacles under the form of superstition, under the form of prejudice, and under the form of the elements. A triple ἁναγκη weighs upon us. There is the fatality of dogmas, the oppression of human laws, the inexorability of nature. In Notre Dame de Paris the author denounced the first; in the Misérables he exemplified the second; in this book he indicates the third. With these three fatalities mingles that inward fatality – the supreme ἁναγκη, the human heart.

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He was capable of everything, and something worse.

He had a trick of laughing loud and knitting his brows at the same time. He used to say, "In politics, I esteem only men inaccessible to influences;" or, "I am for decency and good morals;" or, "The pyramid must be replaced upon its base." His manner was rather cheerful and cordial than otherwise. The expression of his mouth contradicted the sense of his words. His nostrils had an odd way of distending themselves. In the corners of his eyes he had a little network of wrinkles, in which all sorts of dark thoughts seemed to meet together. It was here alone that the secret of his physiognomy could be thoroughly studied. His flat foot was a vulture's claw. His skull was low at the top and large about the temples. His ill-shapen ear, bristled with hair, seemed to say, "Beware of speaking to the animal in this cave."

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