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1  Those Thenardiers are good people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
2  "The sly creature," said the Thenardiers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
3  This petticoat made the Thenardiers furious.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
4  Madeleine made haste to write to the Thenardiers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
5  After all it was a ruse of the Thenardiers to obtain money.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
6  She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thenardiers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
7  At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thenardiers promptly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
8  It was at this point that she began to pay the Thenardiers irregularly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
9  At the expiration of a quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thenardiers' letter once more on the staircase.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
10  So when the mother ceased to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding chapters, the Thenardiers kept Cosette.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
11  The Thenardiers, who were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
12  It will be remembered that Cosette was useful to the Thenardiers in two ways: they made the mother pay them, and they made the child serve them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
13  This was the very month when the Thenardiers, after having demanded twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of twelve.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
14  One day she received from the Thenardiers a letter couched in the following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds of the neighborhood."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
15  An old gossip was found, who made the trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thenardiers, and said on her return: "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
16  As soon as that sum was spent, the Thenardiers grew accustomed to look on the little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; and they treated her accordingly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
17  Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration of a minute the little Thenardiers were playing with the new-comer at making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
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