Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 541 the regiments, dislodged by the shells and the French bul- lets, retreated into the bottom, ...

542 Les Miserables CHAPTER VII NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horse- back by a local troubl ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 543 stopped his horse, and remained for some time motionless, gazing at the lightning and listen ...

544 Les Miserables the scouts; this peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably Vivian’s brigade, whic ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 545 abounded in pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty,’ says Benjamin Constant. Thes ...

546 Les Miserables incredible as it may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, forming, to repeat the ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 547 pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at Bri- enne, he had over his head the shr ...

548 Les Miserables an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured b ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 549 it is now on a level with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been appr ...

550 Les Miserables in no way indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the summit of the escarpment, a rut ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 551 CHAPTER VIII THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE So, on the morning of Waterloo ...

552 Les Miserables of the English badly alarmed, the left wing badly cut into; Ney’s strange mistake in massing, instead of eche ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 553 to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rend- ing details, cipher by cipher; ci ...

554 Les Miserables ed arms, watched him from below with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the decli ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 555 CHAPTER IX THE UNEXPECTED There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a fron ...

556 Les Miserables Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor’s or- ders. Ney drew his sword and placed himself at their head ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 557 cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flouri ...

558 Les Miserables All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the head of the column of cuirassiers rear ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 559 Let us note in passing that it was Dubois’s sorely tried brigade which, an hour previously, ...

560 Les Miserables and supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitat ...