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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pierre and Luce, by Romain Rolland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Pierre and Luce Author: Romain Rolland Translator: Charles De Kay Release Date: March 7, 2010 [EBook #31542] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIERRE AND LUCE *** Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) _BY ROMAIN ROLLAND_ JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JEAN-CHRISTOPHE IN PARIS JEAN-CHRISTOPHE: JOURNEY'S END COLAS BREUGNON, BURGUNDIAN CLERAMBAULT THE MUSICIANS OF TODAY SOME MUSICIANS OF FORMER DAYS BEETHOVEN HANDEL MUSICAL TOUR THROUGH THE LAND OF THE PAST THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY THE PEOPLE'S THEATER PIERRE AND LUCE * * * * * PIERRE AND LUCE BY ROMAIN ROLLAND _Translated by_ CHARLES DE KAY [Illustration] NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY _Printed in U.S.A._ THE ISLE OF CALMS "_Just as the Gulf Stream embraces the Sargasso Sea into which gradually drift the odds and ends that are carried away by the marine currents into the regions of calm, so does our aerial current surround a region where the air is still. It is called_ THE ISLE OF CALMS." DURATION OF THE STORY From Wednesday evening, January 30, to Good Friday, May 29, 1918. PIERRE AND LUCE PIERRE plunged into the subway. A feverish, a brutal crowd. On his feet near the door, closely pressed in a bank of human bodies and sharing the heavy atmosphere passing in and out of their mouths, he stared without seeing them at the black and rumbling vaults over which flickered the shining eyes of the train. The same heavy shadows lay in his mind, the same gleams, hard and tremulous. Suffocating in the raised collar of his overcoat, his arms jammed against his sides and his lips compressed, his forehead damp with perspiration momentarily cooled by a current from outside when the door opened, he tried hard not to see, he tried not to breathe, he tried not to live. The heart of this young fel
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