Chapter 25
The Rat-Hole
The reader must permit us to take him back to the Place de Grève, which we quitted yesterday with Gringoire, in order to follow la Esmeralda. It is ten o’clock in the morning; everything is indicative of the day after a festival. The pavement is covered with rubbish; ribbons, rags, feathers from tufts of plumes, drops of wax from the torches, crumbs of the public feast. A goodly number of bourgeois are “sauntering,” as we say, here and there, turning over with their feet the extinct brands of the bonfire, going into raptures in front of the Pillar House, over…
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Practise Beauty Used as a Verdict
Write six lines on The Rat-Hole: who looked, who was looked at, and what you would have refused. Keep it to this chapter.
Consider:
- •The working skill is Beauty Used as a Verdict.
- •Use only beats from this chapter.
- •Name a cost, not the film.
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