1.2.2-Needsmoreresearch

ClubNinetyThree: 1.2.2: Nuit sur le navire et sur le passager
Sneaky-sneak sneak. In the fog. All sneaky-like.

A note from my edition mentions that this whole region of the Channel/La Manche, where the Claymore is doing its thing, was familiar to Hugo from his exile. “The names he lists in this chapter appear frequently in his poems and especially in les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), a novel for which he wrote a long geographical and historical introduction: l’Archipel de la Manche (published in 1883).”

Hugo is having a little trip down memory lane here, not unlike the geographical excursions from Les Misérables. The Claymore is capable of taking the Passage de la Déroute, it can leave Jersey to the left and Guernsey to the right, it can pass between les Hanois and les Douvres, it is capable of all that. Its keel is capable.

Commentary
Pilferingapples * slow clap*

If the Claymore breaks next chapter to play dominoes, I may throw a Silly Hat party.

Needsmoreresearch Pfffff yes.

The Royalists run a mental check of their various spies and military positions: yes, good, all good. But hmm, what about the Claymore? Someone heads out to Brittany to see how things progress: is it on fire?

As they wade along the coast, they hear…

Double-six!