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Les Miserables Volume 4 Marius BOOK SIXTH. LITTLE GAVROCHE CHAPTER III THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:– An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and Thenardier, although Thenardier was in close confinement. Babet had arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader has seen from Montparnasse’s account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was [...]
Les Miserables Volume 2 Cosette BOOK FIRST. WATERLOO CHAPTER XI A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW
The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, Blucher arriving. Death instead of life. Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint Helena that was seen. If the little shepherd who served as guide to Bulow, Blucher’s lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest [...]
Les Miserables Volume 1 Fantine BOOK FIRST. A JUST MAN CHAPTER V MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG
The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D—- lived, would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have viewed it close at hand. Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, [...]