1 In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed him of his forty sous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 2 He ended by making his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe sentence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 3 You will find at my house, among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, seven years ago, from little Gervais.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 4 We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 5 I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 6 , inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the crime committed against Little Gervais, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 7 He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, which I mentioned at the Court of Assizes," and he arranged this piece of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were the first things to be seen on entering the room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 8 But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL