... 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 old charters call him, went to the ... bearing the mark of King James the Second. On the margin of the declaration, and in the same handwriting there is this note, &apos ;The present declaration is written by us on the back of the royal...