Les Miserables

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1022 Les Miserables CHAPTER III LUC-ESPRIT At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor to be stared at ...

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1024 Les Miserables CHAPTER IV A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he was ...

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1026 Les Miserables CHAPTER V BASQUE AND NICOLETTE He had theories. Here is one of them: ‘When a man is passionately fond of wom ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1027 history. His wife—the second one—had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fi ...

1028 Les Miserables CHAPTER VI IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wra ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1029 an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat ...

1030 Les Miserables ing a priest, thought himself bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them anything ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1031 CHAPTER VII RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, ...

1032 Les Miserables swerve from it. ‘The day is vulgar,’ said he, ‘and deserves only a closed shutter. Fashionable people only l ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1033 CHAPTER VIII TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand’s two daugh- ter ...

1034 Les Miserables paradise becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wed- ded the man of her dreams, but she died. The elder ...

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1036 Les Miserables other for support. There was also in this house, between this elderly spin- ster and this old man, a child, ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1037 BOOK THIRD.—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON ...

1038 Les Miserables CHAPTER I AN ANCIENT SALON When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented many very goo ...

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1040 Les Miserables Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted th ...