Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2101 CHAPTER XXIII ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK At length, by dint of mounting on each othe ...

2102 Les Miserables ‘He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that he has placed himself there. Let hi ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2103 ‘Wa it .’ And addressing Enjolras: ‘Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?’ ‘No.’ ‘Was it ...

2104 Les Miserables Grantaire’s prostration; the crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the tumult unde ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2105 beside Enjolras. ‘Finish both of us at one blow,’ said he. And turning gently to Enjolras, ...

2106 Les Miserables CHAPTER XXIV PRISONER Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. The hand which had seized him from behind and whose g ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2107 from the latter. When a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility ...

2108 Les Miserables only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the rather low barricade, which shut off t ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2109 of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and watched on the exterior, beneath a disordere ...

2110 Les Miserables BOOK SECOND.— THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2111 CHAPTER I THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the ...

2112 Les Miserables There is no guano comparable in fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most mighty of ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2113 sider me ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. Statisticia ...

2114 Les Miserables The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. The intention is good, the result i ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2115 Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a spendthrift. Paris, t ...

2116 Les Miserables it another Paris; a Paris of sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind-alleys, ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2117 CHAPTER II ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cove ...

2118 Les Miserables cradles of death, with a fear that was almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 2119 [Cut-Throat], for the scene of their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night t ...

2120 Les Miserables core of an apple which has entertained literary opinions be- comes an apple-core once more; the effigy on th ...