Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 661 A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf was moving; there we ...

662 Les Miserables torsos of trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,— against all this one has no protection. There is no hard ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 663 the water which stood before her; such was the fright which the Thenardier inspired in her, ...

664 Les Miserables possible between them, she reflected with anguish that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montf ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 665 CHAPTER VI WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE On the afternoon of that same C ...

666 Les Miserables was not in the least eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable cut; black breech ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 667 de l’Hopital. This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter who s ...

668 Les Miserables faubourg to his comrade, ‘That big fellow yonder is the gov- ernment.’ This infallible passage of the king at ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 669 Saint-Martin, where The Two Convicts was being played that day. This poster, illuminated by ...

670 Les Miserables The coachman drew up in front of the carters’ inn installed in the ancient buildings of the Royal Abbey, to g ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 671 it was a very dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in the sky. ...

672 Les Miserables through the forest. It was the man who had just met Cosette. As he walked through the thicket in the directio ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 673 CHAPTER VII COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK Cosette, as we have said, was ...

674 Les Miserables ‘A good quarter of an hour’s walk from here.’ The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:— ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 675 The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but in which there was, n ...

676 Les Miserables ‘And what do those girls do?’ ‘Oh!’ said the child, ‘they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in them, all ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 677 now preserved a gloomy silence. When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perce ...

678 Les Miserables CHAPTER VIII THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN Cosette could ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 679 Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection of the stranger’s cost ...

680 Les Miserables cudgel on a bench, had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a bottle of wine and a ...