Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 841 Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, and that in the world she passed for dea ...

842 Les Miserables and services. That day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and said, in a loud voice, ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 843 the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the young recluses could see him, because of the se ...

844 Les Miserables Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thr ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 845 CHAPTER VI THE LITTLE CONVENT In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfect ...

846 Les Miserables Mother Jacob. One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of Sainte-Aure, the only one ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 847 she entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a reason, that ther ...

848 Les Miserables monly believed, Dismas and Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the pretensio ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 849 CHAPTER VII SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS During the six years which separate 1819 from ...

850 Les Miserables assistant mistress; Mother Annonciation, the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 851 ture of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of angels. Those of the l ...

852 Les Miserables bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the presence of the archbishop. With the exception of ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 853 CHAPTER VIII POST CORDA LAPIDES After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unpr ...

854 Les Miserables open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare oc- casions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 855 the other side of the Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will b ...

856 Les Miserables CHAPTER IX CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE A Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the con- vent of the Pe ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 857 ment of taking the oath, she said to the priest, ‘Monseigneur Saint-Francois gave it to Mons ...

858 Les Miserables do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to contem- plate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 859 CHAPTER X ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which ...

860 Les Miserables order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 164 ...