Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 281 This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. Mons ...

282 Les Miserables CHAPTER III SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 283 every passing year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely made use ...

284 Les Miserables use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filame ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 285 He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them as a man conceals hi ...

286 Les Miserables Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the room, and that it was a hermit’s cave, a ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 287 CHAPTER IV M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the de ...

288 Les Miserables thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one being amid the eclipse of the world; to ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 289 there. One overflows with serenity, with gayety, with ec- stasy; one is a radiance amid the ...

290 Les Miserables ‘But,’ resumed the dowager, ‘you are wearing mourning for him.’ He replied, ‘It is because I was a servant in ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 291 CHAPTER V VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON Little by little, and in the course of time, all this ...

292 Les Miserables absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 293 His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant ...

294 Les Miserables sibility of education. Social education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort it may ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 295 succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an inspector. During his youth he had been emp ...

296 Les Miserables was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, he said, ‘The functionary can make no mistake; the ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 297 ert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared beneath his hat: his eyes were no ...

298 Les Miserables He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the world. It was divined, from some word ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 299 CHAPTER VI FATHER FAUCHELEVENT One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an un- paved all ...

300 Les Miserables tling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodi ...