“ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well ”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862). copy citation
| Author | Victor Hugo |
|---|---|
| Source | Les Misérables |
| Topic | night |
| Date | 1862 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood in 1887 |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135-h/135-h.htm |
Context
“[ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.]
43 (return) [ Je n’entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant sans être agité lui-meme.]
44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, tutu, pointed hat!]
45 (return) [ Chien, dog, trigger.]
46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the forest, Charlot asked Charlotte.”
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