The Novels of Victor Hugo, Fully Translated Volume 3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII. THE SPECTRE MONK The celebrated wine-shop of La Pomme d'Eve was situated in the University, at the corner of the Rue de la Rondelle and the Rue du Batonnier. It was a very spacious but very low room on the ground floor, with an arched roof, the central spring of which rested on a huge wooden pillar, painted yellow; tables everywhere; shining pewter jugs hung on the wall; always a large number of drinkers; a plenty of wenches; a window on the street; a vine at the door, and over the door a creaking square of sheet-iron, with an apple and a woman painted upon it, rusted by the rain, and swinging in the wind on an iron rod. This kind of weathercock, which looked towards the pavement, was the signboard. Night was falling; the street was dark; the wine-shop, full of candles, flamed from afar like a forge in the darkness; the noise of glasses and feasting, of oaths and quarrels, )ill he heard throug the broken panes. . v, gh the imst wh'd the heat of the room ' M over the iron: isemciit, a multitude .";.-r-.i it figures co ..' 1- er co-itiisedly; i . a i.e to ti'.w a !--.iit ni r'viv !.n.jh- - -. i..- li-rtf from i ""-, p.t. t: whose -.- r.vied there t: .ii r.u !i--;-jt-d by ..- ..!; window w: hi.'. -- . ir.t: v tyoi ' " 5, tj.- o n vf ..'i1 Mise- -, .'-iw r!l, a d shout into the Vine- hjp . . it! ianteniif cry with which it was then '. . custom to g? --et drunkards: " BacV i your glasses, You ' runken, diunken One man, however, paced back and ff/th in front of the noisy tavern, !ooking at ' incessantly, and going no farther from it tb i a pikeman from his sentry-box. H- . v- ' 'I up to the nose. This cloak 1 ..,5t of fir.- iJ clothes man . .. ! I Ac. r-.;i'''.'i!-s to protect i: i, ( f.'nr t r.ijrht ? jn.-...