Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 181 op, straight to the cupboard, which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as ...

182 Les Miserables CHAPTER XII THE BISHOP WORKS The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his garden. Ma ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 183 chlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken as it fell across the bed. He rose up at ...

184 Les Miserables Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. ‘Iron has a taste.’ ‘Very well,’ said the Bishop; ‘wooden ones th ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 185 ‘Silence!’ said the gendarme. ‘He is Monseigneur the Bishop.’ In the meantime, Monseigneur B ...

186 Les Miserables ‘My friend,’ resumed the Bishop, ‘before you go, here are your candlesticks. Take them.’ He stepped to the ch ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 187 CHAPTER XIII LITTLE GERVAIS Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He ...

188 Les Miserables rows here and there, whose odor as he passed through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childh ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 189 The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and tossed up his handful ...

190 Les Miserables silver!’ It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him by the collar of his blouse ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 191 At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. The sun had set. The shadows were des ...

192 Les Miserables fied wild animal which is seeking refuge. He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, gr ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 193 ‘Monsieur le Cure, have you seen a child pass?’ ‘No,’ said the priest. ‘One named Little Ger ...

194 Les Miserables down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a sp ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 195 he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the actions of other men had filled ...

196 Les Miserables which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on e ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 197 himself,—in stealing the money from that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longe ...

198 Les Miserables it absorbs reality. One no longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as though apart ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 199 had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the more cowardly, and all the ...

200 Les Miserables BOOK THIRD.—IN THE YEAR 1817 ...