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"All the same. It is an adventure such as has not occurred since Earl
Gesbodus's time."
Gwynplaine, the Laughing Man; the Tadcaster Inn; the Green Box; "Chaos
Vanquished;" Switzerland; Chillon; the Comprachicos; exile; mutilation;
the Republic; Jeffreys; James II.; the jussu regis; the bottle opened
at the Admiralty; the father, Lord Linnæus; the legitimate son, Lord
Fermain; the bastard son, Lord David; the probable lawsuits; the Duchess
Josiana; the Lord Chancellor; the Queen;--all these subjects of
conversation ran from bench to bench.
Whispering is like a train of gunpowder.
They seized on every incident. All the details of the occurrence caused
an immense murmur through the House. Gwynplaine, wandering in the depths
of his reverie, heard the buzzing, without knowing that he was the cause
of it. He was strangely attentive to the depths, not to the surface.
Excess of attention becomes isolation.
The buzz of conversation in the House impedes its usual business no more
than the dust raised by a troop impedes its march. The judges--who in
the Upper House were mere assistants, without the privilege of
speaking, except when questioned--had taken their places on the second
woolsack; and the three Secretaries of State theirs on the third.
The heirs to peerages flowed into their compartment, at once without and
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