Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 481 sleeping child who is condemned to death. But this pain- ful respiration hardly troubled a s ...

482 Les Miserables She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:— ‘And Cosette?’ ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 483 CHAPTER II FANTINE HAPPY She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itse ...

484 Les Miserables light. She clasped her hands with an expression which con- tained all that is possible to prayer in the way o ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 485 I am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I have seen white th ...

486 Les Miserables just one little instant? She might be taken away directly af- terwards. Tell me; you are the master; it could ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 487 dents which are always occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-sett ...

488 Les Miserables He had released Fantine’s hand. He listened to her words as one listens to the sighing of the breeze, with hi ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 489 CHAPTER III JAVERT SATISFIED This is what had taken place. The half-hour after midnight had ...

490 Les Miserables in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of th ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 491 Inspector Javert. The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after h ...

492 Les Miserables was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those emotions which may be designated as ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 493 The humiliation of having, in some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, fo ...

494 Les Miserables are things which may become hideous when wrongly di- rected; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: thei ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 495 CHAPTER IV AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which ...

496 Les Miserables No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: it was no longer a human word: it was ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 497 the world was coming to an end. Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. ‘Mo ...

498 Les Miserables really capital!’ Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. ‘My child!’ she cried, ‘to go and fetch my child ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 499 She was dead. Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened it as ...

500 Les Miserables plate the motionless body of Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, evidently w ...