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diff --git a/themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/post/chapter-2.md b/themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/post/chapter-2.md deleted file mode 100644 index b3c7d4f..0000000 --- a/themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/post/chapter-2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,90 +0,0 @@ ---- -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.” |