waiting. But the texts announcing his coming are inspired. The future is
certain. There will be light," and with bowed head he prayed fervently.

Des Hermies rose and paced the room. "All that is very well," he
groaned, "but this century laughs the glorified Christ to scorn. It
contaminates the supernatural and vomits on the Beyond. Well, how can we
hope that in the future the offspring of the fetid tradesmen of today
will be decent? Brought up as they are, what will they do in Life?"

"They will do," replied Durtal, "as their fathers and mothers do now.
They will stuff their guts and crowd out their souls through their
alimentary canals."

FINIS

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of La-bas, by J. K. Huysmans

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LA-BAS ***

***** This file should be named 14323.txt or 14323.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/3/2/14323/

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Cori Samuel and the PG Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.

*** START: FULL LICENSE ***

THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK

To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free
distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work
(or any other work associated in