Ninety-three By Victor Hugo, Aline Delano

Ninety-three By Victor Hugo, Aline Delano: "Captain Boisberthelot and Lieutenant la Vieuville brave men though they were paused at the top of the ladder silent pale and undecided looking down on the deck Some one pushed them aside with his elbow apd descended It was their passenger the peasant the man about whom they were talking a moment ago Having reached the bottom of the ladder he halted V VIS ET VIR THE cannon was rolling to and fro on the deck It might have been called the living chariot of the Apocalypse A dim wavering of lights and shadows was added to this spectacle by the marine lantern swinging under the deck The outlines of the cannon were indistinguishable by reason of the rapidity"