The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 8 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 8 Not only Happiness but Prosperity What true things are told in stories The burnt scar of the invisible fiend who has touched you is remorse for a wicked thought. In Gwynplaine evil thoughts never ripened and he had therefore no remorse. Sometimes he felt regret. Vague mists of conscience. What was this Nothing. Their happiness was complete--so complete that they were no longer even poor. From 1680 to 1704 a great change had taken place. It happened sometimes in the year 1704 that as night fell on some little village on the coast a great heavy van drawn by a pair of stout horses made its entry. It was like the shell of a vessel reversed--the keel for a roof the deck for a floor placed on four wheels. The wheels were all of the same size and high as wagon wheels. Wheels pole and van were all painted green with a rhythmical gradation of shades which ranged from bottle green for the wheels to apple green for the roofing. This green colour had succeeded in drawing attention to the carriage which was known in all the fair grounds as The Green Box. The Green Box had but two windows one at each extremity and at the back a door with steps to let down. On the roof from a tube painted green like the rest smoke arose. This moving house was always varnished and washed afresh. In front on a ledge fastened to the van with the window for a door behind the horses and by the side of an old man who held the reins and directed the team two gipsy women dressed as goddesses sounded their trumpets. The astonishment with which the villagers regarded this machine was overwhelming. This was the old establishment of Ursus its proportions augmented by success and improved from a wretched booth into a theatre. A kind of animal between dog and wolf was chained under the van. This was Homo. The old coachman who drove the horses was the philosopher himself. Whence came this improvement from the miserable hut to the Olympic caravan From .
