The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 1 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 1 Wherein We See the Face of Him of Whom We Have Hitherto Seen Only the Act Nature had been prodigal of her kindness to Gwynplaine. She had bestowed on him a mouth opening to his ears ears folding over to his eyes a shapeless nose to support the spectacles of the grimace maker and a face that no one could look upon without laughing. We have just said that nature had loaded Gwynplaine with her gifts. But was it nature Had she not been assisted Two slits for eyes a hiatus for a mouth a snub protuberance with two holes for nostrils a flattened face all having for the result an appearance of laughter it is certain that nature never produces such perfection single-handed. But is laughter a synonym of joy If in the presence of this mountebank--for he was one--the first impression of gaiety wore off and the man were observed with attention traces of art were to be recognized. Such a face could never have been created by chance it must have resulted from intention. Such perfect completeness is not in nature. Man can do nothing to create beauty but everything to produce ugliness. A Hottentot profile cannot be changed into a Roman outline but out of a Grecian nose you may make a Calmuck s. It only requires to obliterate the root of the nose and to flatten the nostrils. The dog Latin of the Middle Ages had a reason for its creation of the verb denasare. Had Gwynplaine when a child been so worthy of attention that his face had been subjected to transmutation Why not Needed there a greater motive than the speculation of his future exhibition According to all appearance industrious manipulators of children had worked upon his face. It seemed evident that a mysterious and probably occult science which was to surgery what alchemy was to chemistry had chiselled his flesh evidently at a very tender age and manufactured his countenance with premeditation. That science clever with the knife skilled in obtusions and ligatures had .
