Les Miserables

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722 Les Miserables The stranger said tranquilly:— ‘Come, Cosette.’ He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picke ...

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724 Les Miserables CHAPTER XI NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY Jean Valjean was not dead. When he fell ...

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726 Les Miserables in isolated taverns, behind hedges; they had changed car- riages frequently; they had travelled short distanc ...

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728 Les Miserables CHAPTER I MASTER GORBEAU Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the Salpetr ...

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730 Les Miserables a narrow scantling in the centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as wicket and a ...

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734 Les Miserables as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 735 and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a ...

736 Les Miserables fect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 737 CHAPTER II A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valj ...

738 Les Miserables pared beforehand on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began to scrutinize Cosette’s ...

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74 0 Les Miserables CHAPTER III TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valje ...