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diff --git a/themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/post/chapter-2.md b/themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/post/chapter-2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3c7d4f --- /dev/null +++ b/themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/post/chapter-2.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +date: 2017-04-10T11:00:59-04:00 +description: "Pierre Gringoire" +featured_image: "" +tags: [] +title: "Chapter II: Pierre Gringoire" +--- + +Nevertheless, as be harangued them, the satisfaction and admiration +unanimously excited by his costume were dissipated by his words; and when +he reached that untoward conclusion: “As soon as his illustrious eminence, +the cardinal, arrives, we will begin,” his voice was drowned in a thunder +of hooting. + +“Begin instantly! The mystery! the mystery immediately!” shrieked the +people. And above all the voices, that of Johannes de Molendino was +audible, piercing the uproar like the fife’s derisive serenade: “Commence +instantly!” yelped the scholar. + +“Down with Jupiter and the Cardinal de Bourbon!” vociferated Robin +Poussepain and the other clerks perched in the window. + +“The morality this very instant!” repeated the crowd; “this very instant! +the sack and the rope for the comedians, and the cardinal!” + +Poor Jupiter, haggard, frightened, pale beneath his rouge, dropped his +thunderbolt, took his cap in his hand; then he bowed and trembled and +stammered: “His eminence—the ambassadors—Madame Marguerite of +Flanders—.” He did not know what to say. In truth, he was afraid of +being hung. + +Hung by the populace for waiting, hung by the cardinal for not having +waited, he saw between the two dilemmas only an abyss; that is to say, a +gallows. + +Luckily, some one came to rescue him from his embarrassment, and assume +the responsibility. + +An individual who was standing beyond the railing, in the free space +around the marble table, and whom no one had yet caught sight of, since +his long, thin body was completely sheltered from every visual ray by the +diameter of the pillar against which he was leaning; this individual, we +say, tall, gaunt, pallid, blond, still young, although already wrinkled +about the brow and cheeks, with brilliant eyes and a smiling mouth, clad +in garments of black serge, worn and shining with age, approached the +marble table, and made a sign to the poor sufferer. But the other was so +confused that he did not see him. The new comer advanced another step. + +“Jupiter,” said he, “my dear Jupiter!” + +The other did not hear. + +At last, the tall blond, driven out of patience, shrieked almost in his +face,— + +“Michel Giborne!” + +“Who calls me?” said Jupiter, as though awakened with a start. + +“I,” replied the person clad in black. + +“Ah!” said Jupiter. + +“Begin at once,” went on the other. “Satisfy the populace; I undertake to +appease the bailiff, who will appease monsieur the cardinal.” + +Jupiter breathed once more. + +“Messeigneurs the bourgeois,” he cried, at the top of his lungs to the +crowd, which continued to hoot him, “we are going to begin at once.” + +“_Evoe Jupiter! Plaudite cives_! All hail, Jupiter! Applaud, +citizens!” shouted the scholars. + +“Noel! Noel! good, good,” shouted the people. + +The hand clapping was deafening, and Jupiter had already withdrawn under +his tapestry, while the hall still trembled with acclamations. + +In the meanwhile, the personage who had so magically turned the tempest +into dead calm, as our old and dear Corneille puts it, had modestly +retreated to the half-shadow of his pillar, and would, no doubt, have +remained invisible there, motionless, and mute as before, had he not been +plucked by the sleeve by two young women, who, standing in the front row +of the spectators, had noticed his colloquy with Michel Giborne-Jupiter. + +“Master,” said one of them, making him a sign to approach. “Hold your +tongue, my dear Liénarde,” said her neighbor, pretty, fresh, and very +brave, in consequence of being dressed up in her best attire. “He is not a +clerk, he is a layman; you must not say master to him, but messire.” |