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Виктор Мари Гюго. The Man Who Laughs. A Romance of English History
Preliminary chapter. Ursus
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Another preliminary chapter. The comprachicos
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Part i
Book the first. Night not so Black as Man
Chapter i. Portland bill
Chapter ii. Left alone
Chapter iii. Alone
Chapter iv. Questions
Chapter v. The tree of human invention
Chapter vi. Struggle between death and life
Chapter vii. The north point of portland
Book the second. The Hooker at Sea
Chapter i. Superhuman laws
Chapter ii. Our first rough sketches filled in
Chapter iii. Troubled men on the troubled sea
Chapter iv. A cloud different from the others. enters on the scene
Chapter v. Hardquanonne
Chapter vi. They think that help is at hand
Chapter vii. Superhuman horrors
Chapter viii. Nix et nox
Chapter ix. The charge confided to a raging sea
Chapter x. The colossal savage, the storm
Chapter xi. The caskets
Chapter xii. Face to face with the rock
Chapter xiii. Face to face with night
Chapter xiv. Ortach
Chapter xv. Portentosum mare
Chapter xvi. The problem suddenly works in silence
Chapter xvii. The last resource
Chapter xviii. The highest resource
Book the third. The Child in the Shadow
Chapter i. Chesil
Chapter ii. The effect of snow
Chapter iii. A burden makes a rough road rougher
Chapter iv. Another form of desert
Chapter v. Misanthropy plays its pranks
URSUS, PHILOSOPHER
Chapter vi. The awaking
Part ii
Book the first. The Everlasting Presence of the Past: Man Reflects Man
Chapter i. Lord clancharlie
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Chapter ii. Lord david dirry-moir
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Chapter iii. The duchess josiana
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Chapter iv. The leader of fashion
Chapter v. Queen Anne
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Chapter vi. Barkilphedro
Chapter vii. Barkilphedro gnaws his way
Chapter viii. Inferi
Chapter ix. Hate is as strong as love
Chapter x. The flame which would be seen. if man were transparent
Chapter xi. Barkilphedro in ambuscade
Chapter xii. Scotland, ireland, and england
Book the second. Gwynplaine and Dea
Chapter i. Wherein we see the face of him of whom we have hitherto seen only the acts
Chapter ii. Dea
Chapter iii “Oculos non habet, et videt”
Chapter iv. Well-matched lovers
Chapter v. The blue sky through the black cloud
Chapter vi. Ursus as tutor, and ursus as guardian
Chapter vii. Blindness gives lessons in clairvoyance
Chapter viii. Not only happiness, but prosperity
Chapter ix. Absurdities which folks. without taste call poetry
Chapter x. An outsider’s view of men and things
Chapter xi. Gwynplaine thinks justice, and ursus talks truth
Chapter xii. Ursus the poet drags on ursus. the philosopher
Book the third. The Beginning of the Fissure
Chapter i. The tadcaster inn
Chapter ii. Open-air eloquence
Chapter iii. Where the passer-by reappears
Chapter iv. Contraries fraternize in hate
Chapter v. The wapentake
Chapter vi. The mouse examinedby the cats
Chapter vii. Why should a gold piece lower itself. by mixing with a heap of pennies?
Chapter viii. Symptoms of poisoning
Chapter ix. Abyssus abyssum vocat
Book the fourth. The Cell of Torture
Chapter i. The temptation of st. Gwynplaine
Chapter ii. From gay to grave
Chapter iii. Lex, rex, fex
Chapter iv. Ursus spies the police
Chapter v. A fearful place
Chapter vi. The kind of magistracy. under the wigs of former days
Chapter vii. Shuddering
Chapter viii. Lamentation
Book the fifth. The Sea and Fate Are Moved by the Same Breath
Chapter i. The durability of fragile things
Chapter ii. The waif knows its own course
Chapter iii. An awakening
Chapter iv. Fascination
Chapter v. We think we remember; we forget
Book the sixth. Ursus under Different Aspects
Chapter i. What the misanthrope said
Chapter ii. What he did
Chapter iii. Complications
Chapter iv. Moenibus surdis campana muta
Chapter v. State policy deals with little matters. as well as with great
Book the seventh. The Titaness
Chapter i. The awakening
Chapter ii. The resemblance of a palace to a wood
Chapter iii. Eve
Chapter iv. Satan
Chapter v. They recognize, but do not know, each other
Book the eighth. The Capitol and Things Around It
Chapter i. Analysis of majestic matters
Chapter ii. Impartiality
Chapter iii. The old hall
Chapter iv. The old chamber
Chapter v
Chapter vi. The high and the low
Chapter vii. Storms of men are worse. than storms of oceans
Chapter viii. He would be a good brother, were he not a good son
Book the ninth. In Ruins
Chapter i. It is through excess of greatness that man reaches excess of misery
Chapter ii. The dregs
Conclusion. The Night and the Sea
Chapter i. A watch-dog may be a guardian angel
Chapter ii. Barkilphedro, having aimed. at the eagle, brings down the dove
Chapter iii. Paradise regained below
Chapter iv. Nay; on high!
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Ursus and Homo were fast friends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf. Their dispositions tallied. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name. Having found Ursus fit for himself, he had found Homo fit for the beast. Man and wolf turned their partnership to account at fairs, at village fêtes, at the corners of streets where passers-by throng, and out of the need which people seem to feel everywhere to listen to idle gossip and to buy quack medicine. The wolf, gentle and courteously subordinate, diverted the crowd. It is a pleasant thing to behold the tameness of animals. Our greatest delight is to see all the varieties of domestication parade before us. This it is which collects so many folks on the road of royal processions.
Ursus and Homo went about from cross-road to cross-road, from the High Street of Aberystwith to the High Street of Jedburgh, from country-side to country-side, from shire to shire, from town to town. One market exhausted, they went on to another. Ursus lived in a small van upon wheels, which Homo was civilized enough to draw by day and guard by night. On bad roads, up hills, and where there were too many ruts, or there was too much mud, the man buckled the trace round his neck and pulled fraternally, side by side with the wolf. They had thus grown old together. They encamped at haphazard on a common, in the glade of a wood, on the waste patch of grass where roads intersect, at the outskirts of villages, at the gates of towns, in market-places, in public walks, on the borders of parks, before the entrances of churches. When the cart drew up on a fair green, when the gossips ran up open-mouthed and the curious made a circle round the pair, Ursus harangued and Homo approved. Homo, with a bowl in his mouth, politely made a collection among the audience. They gained their livelihood. The wolf was lettered, likewise the man. The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts. “Above all things, do not degenerate into a man,” his friend would say to him.
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It would be wrong, however, to believe shipwreck to be absolutely inevitable. The Danish fishermen of Disco and the Balesin; the seekers of black whales; Hearn steering towards Behring Strait, to discover the mouth of Coppermine River; Hudson, Mackenzie, Vancouver, Ross, Dumont D’Urville, all underwent at the Pole itself the wildest hurricanes, and escaped out of them.
It was into this description of tempest that the hooker had entered, triumphant and in full sail-frenzy against frenzy. When Montgomery, escaping from Rouen, threw his galley, with all the force of its oars, against the chain barring the Seine at La Bouille, he showed similar effrontery.
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