Les Miserables

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 161 He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous weights on his back; and when the occasion demand ...

162 Les Miserables terrible. He was absorbed, in fact. Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed i ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 163 feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for him who is without, so fright ...

164 Les Miserables tree-pruner of Faverolles, the formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner in whic ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 165 CHAPTER VIII BILLOWS AND SHADOWS A man overboard! What matters it? The vessel does not halt. ...

166 Les Miserables abyss bear him away; all the tongues of water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confuse ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 167 Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is exhausted; that ship, that d ...

168 Les Miserables nal laws fling their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. The soul, going down stream in this ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 169 CHAPTER IX NEW TROUBLES When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, w ...

170 Les Miserables On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of an orange-flower distillery, some men eng ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 171 CHAPTER X THE MAN AROUSED As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awo ...

172 Les Miserables time and of the immediate present floated there pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 173 which would have been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him thus in ...

174 Les Miserables in a cellar, before which the passersby come and go. On ar- riving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. I ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 175 not rare for them to have miners’ tools at their command. These miners’ candlesticks are of ...

176 Les Miserables CHAPTER XI WHAT HE DOES Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. He gave the door a push. He pushed it gently with ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 177 Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the pierci ...

178 Les Miserables back. His only thought now was to finish as soon as pos- sible. He took a step and entered the room. This roo ...

Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 179 smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon his brow the indescribable reflection of a light ...

180 Les Miserables No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In order to attempt to form an idea of ...