... WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 4
CHAPTER 3
Lex, Rex, Fex
Unexplained arrest, which would greatly astonish an Englishman nowadays, was
then a very usual proceeding of the police. ... Arcklo, a relation of the Earl of Ormond, was arrested at
Kilmacaugh.
These captures of the body by the mere motion of justice represented rather the
mandat de comparution...
...
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 th...
... 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 receives a crown from
the poor, ... Bolingbroke.
III.
The Man Who Laughs
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 5
Queen Anne
I.
Above this couple there was Anne, Queen of England. An ordinar...
...
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 4
CHAPTER 1
The Temptation of St. Gwynplaine
One jet of flame hardly makes a prick in the darkness; another sets fire to a ... then?
That then was terror-striking.
There was a woman who desired him! If so, let no one ever again pronounce the
word incredible! A woman desire him! A woman who had seen his face!...
... refractory. Gwynplaine felt a shock under the rigid touch of the law;
then he sat as though petrified.
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 4
CHAPTER 2
From Gay to Grave
How simple is ...
And he smiled. He had just burnt the duchess's letter.
The conscience of the man who loves is the guardian angel of the woman whom he
loves.
Unbur...
... except the sheriff of
Westmoreland, whose office was hereditary, and the sheriffs of London and
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 4
CHAPTER 4
The Kind of Magistracy under the Wigs ... arm the under-sheriff, his left arm the justice of the quorum. The justice of
the quorum, assisted by the bailiff of the hundred, termed the wapentake,...
... except the sheriff of
Westmoreland, whose office was hereditary, and the sheriffs of London and
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 4
CHAPTER 6
The Kind of Magistracy under the Wigs ... the quorum could exercise their functions as they did then. There
was in the England of the past a certain confusion of powers, whose ill-defined
attributes resu...
... of the shape worn by judges, the
other by doctors.
Men of these kinds wear mourning for the deaths of which they are the cause.
Behind the sheriff, at the edge of the flat stone under the ... obliged to lengthen itself out, taking the form of the corridor.
They walked almost in single file; first the wapentake, then Gwynplaine, then the
justice of the quorum, th...
... Such are the hidden channels by which truth,
swallowed up in the gulf of human actions, floats to the surface."
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
VICTOR HUGO
PART 2
BOOK 5
CHAPTER 1
The Durability ... the justice of the quorum set in motion the man dressed in leather.
This man, who was the executioner's assistant, "groom of the gibbet," the...