Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs - Cosmopolitan University 2

THE END.
[Footnote 1: As much as to say, the other daughters are provided for as
best may be. (Note by Ursus on the margin of the wall.)]
[Footnote 2: _Una nube salida del malo lado del diablo_.]
[Footnote 3: Tiller of the mountain, who is that man?--A man.
What tongue does he speak?--All.
What things does he know?--All.
What is his country?--None and all.
Who is his God?--God.
What do you call him?--The madman.
What do you say you call him?--The wise man.
In your band, what is he?--He is what he is.
The chief?--No.
Then what is he?--The soul.]
[Footnote 4: Traitors.]
[Footnote 5: The above is a very inefficient and rather absurd
translation of the French. It turns upon the fact that in the French
language the word for darkness is plural--_ténèbres_.--TRANSLATOR.]
[Footnote 6: Transcriber's note: The original text refers to "vitres
épaisses", thick panes, without specific dimensions. Glass only a
millimetre thick would have been rather flimsy.]
[Footnote 7: _Gaufrier_, the iron with which a pattern is traced on
stuff.]
[Footnote 8: Art thou near me?]
[Footnote 9: Côtes, coasts, costa, ribs.]
[Footnote 10:
"Their lips were four red roses on a stem,
Which in their summer beauty kissed each other."
_Shakespeare_.]
[Footnote 11: Regina Saba coram rege crura denudavit.--_Schicklardus in
Proemio Tarich Jersici, F_. 65.]
[Footnote 12: Book I., p. 196.]
[Footnote 13: Pray! weep! Reason is born of the word. Song creates
light.]