Victor Hugo (9781509855650) by Robb Graham

Author:Robb, Graham [Robb, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509855650
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd

Hugo understandably found it hard to be sceptical. Nobody would have used Léopoldine as a practical joke. Even more impressively, the table began to spell out ideas, images, whole lines of verse, even the final title of Les Misérables, which were known only to Hugo, often when he was not in the room. His greatest anxiety, in fact, was that, having promised himself that he would never ‘plagiarize the Unknown’, the spirits of the dead might acquire an ethical copyright on some of his best work.

After Léopoldine, the table reverted for a time to its function as a parlour game. The Hugos and Vacquerie were joined by some fellow exiles: the Hungarian, Teleki, a former Republican representative, General Le Flô, and Hugo’s hunchbacked side-kick, Hennett de Kesler, an excitable man whose company Hugo enjoyed because Kesler was an atheist who was easily defeated in argument. Hugo flirted with the female spirits, chatted to an incoherent fairy who claimed to be speaking Assyrian, and, from the corridor, roared with laughter at the following exchange with Vacquerie:

‘Who is there?’

‘Lope.’

‘de Vega?’

‘Yes.’

‘For whom do you come?’

‘For you.’

‘Do you have a message for me?’

‘Yes.’

‘Speak.’

‘Your.’

‘Continue.’

‘Seen.’

‘Continue.’

‘B p’

‘Are you saying Bp?’

‘No.’

‘Did you say “Seen”?’

‘No.’

‘Did you say “Your”?’

‘No.’

‘You do not have a message for me, then?’

‘No.’

‘Are you Lope de Vega?’

‘No.’

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