Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 101 gloomy openings stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, that ...

102 Les Miserables the light of things; he had nothing of the prophet and noth- ing of the magician about him. This humble soul ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 103 soul should shut itself up in it, as the pearl in the oyster.’ Thus he shut himself up, he l ...

104 Les Miserables BOOK SECOND—THE FALL ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 105 CHAPTER I THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour ...

106 Les Miserables iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a shaved head and a long beard. The sweat, the heat, the journey on ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 107 then entered the town-hall. There then existed at D—— a fine inn at the sign of the Cross of ...

108 Les Miserables has travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 109 it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to a child who seemed to serve hi ...

110 Les Miserables ‘I cannot give you any dinner.’ This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger as gr ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 111 the town-hall, and this was the reply that was sent to me. Can you read?’ So saying, he held ...

112 Les Miserables The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble public house, some hovel, however lowly. ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 113 to the fire; a fine odor was emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face ...

114 Les Miserables The stranger turned round and replied gently, ‘Ah! You k now?—‘ ‘ Ye s .’ ‘I was sent away from the other inn ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 115 was a large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in print- ed cotton stuff, and a cradle in o ...

116 Les Miserables left shoulder, and which a hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects which were uph ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 117 The stranger’s embarrassment increased; he stammered, ‘He did not receive me either.’ The pe ...

118 Les Miserables blowing. By the light of the expiring day the stranger per- ceived, in one of the gardens which bordered the ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 119 that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte. When he had, not without difficulty, rep ...

120 Les Miserables petty, lugubrious, and narrow. There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a de- formed tree, which ...