Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 361 ‘So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerat- ing. This is the way I reason: I h ...

362 Les Miserables treat myself as I would treat any other man. When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigo ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 363 BOOK SEVENTH.—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR ...

364 Les Miserables CHAPTER I SISTER SIMPLICE The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur M. But the ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 365 are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is ...

366 Les Miserables the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; s ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 367 when she had been born at Syracuse— a lie which would have saved her. This patron saint suit ...

368 Les Miserables tor had bent down to his ear and said to him, ‘She is losing ground fast.’ Then he returned to the town-hall, ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 369 CHAPTER II THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE From the town-hall he betook himself to th ...

370 Les Miserables M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a harness over. ‘Master Scaufflaire,’ he ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 371 what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. That is what he wanted, si ...

372 Les Miserables ‘I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for also—not a farthing less; and the beast’s ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 373 He had been thinking of nothing else since the begin- ning of the conversation, but he did n ...

374 Les Miserables Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a thousand francs. Besides the horse a ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 375 M. Madeleine’s chamber. He paid no heed to the portress’s words, but went to bed and to slee ...

376 Les Miserables CHAPTER III A TEMPEST IN A SKULL The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Mad- eleine is no other th ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 377 Penetrate, at certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged in reflecti ...

378 Les Miserables These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that they formed but a single one there; both were ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 379 this stupor he felt that shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the app ...

380 Les Miserables thing was still confused, and jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could not perc ...