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Show Dumas' Quiet Pebuke. During Victor Hugo's exile. Dumas went to Guernsey, where Hugo received re-ceived him kindly, and took him o breakfast on a veranda overlooking the ocean It did not take Dumas long tr- discover that Hugo was already posing as the proscribed prophet, and when the poet said, with an Olympian wave of his hand: "You see me, my dear Dumas, on my rock of exile like the proscribed one of antiquity." "Never mind." said Dumas, with his mouth full, "the butter Is far better here than In Paris. There Is no disputing dis-puting that" |