Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 501 CHAPTER V A SUITABLE TOMB Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. The arrest of M. ...

502 Les Miserables too perfect, too affected. He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came across. I ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 503 conscious of it. It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from her ...

504 Les Miserables the courtyard without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, a pass-key which opened a ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 505 nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was probably the prison- bread which he had carried wi ...

506 Les Miserables that poor, unhappy woman?’ ‘No,’ said he; ‘I am pursued; it would only end in their ar- resting me in that ro ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 507 the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was reli- gious, superficial and corre ...

508 Les Miserables ‘Pardon me,’ said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 509 poor are lost. Fortunately, God knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the ...

510 Les Miserables VOLUME II. COSETTE ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 511 BOOK FIRST.—WATERLOO ...

512 Les Miserables CHAPTER I WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 513 clump of sparsely planted but very green trees, which fills the valley on one side of the ro ...

514 Les Miserables The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large cir- cular excavation, resembling the hollow of a sphere, ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 515 CHAPTER II HOUGOMONT Hougomont,—this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, the ...

516 Les Miserables trained in espalier against the wall of the chapel—behold the court, the conquest of which was one of Napoleo ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 517 The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had a piece applied to i ...

518 Les Miserables stones,— fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the grape-shot was a conflagration. In th ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 519 ried off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a moment, and were ...

520 Les Miserables for many days and nights. There are at this day certain trac- es recognizable, such as old boles of burned tr ...