Victor Hugo. The last day was sentenced to death (№ 261257)

They teach me to speak in thieves ' slang, "Bang the mallet", in their expression. This is a real language that accrued in the national language, disgusting or herpes or wart. Sometimes he reaches a kind of expressiveness, the picturesqueness, which takes the horror: "On the tray spilled juice" (blood on the road), "marry the widow" (to be hanged), as if the rope on the gallows - widow all hanged. Head thief has two names: "the Sorbonne" when she's up to, considers and tells a crime, and "chock" when the executioner chops off her; sometimes the language reveals a playful manner: "willow shawl" - a basket of junk. "liar" is the language; but most of all, at every step, across the incomprehensible, mysterious, ugly, disgusting words, who took from nowhere: "kat" - the executioner, "lusca" - death. Every word looks like a spider or a toad. When you listen to how it's spoken, it looks like before you shake out the dirty and dusty rags.