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CHAPTER VIII.
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.
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