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1 Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
2 This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA
3 At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, two died.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
4 Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a convent with respectful accents.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ...
5 She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any question in the book, and she would answer it.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
6 The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning himself, has been absent from Paris for many years.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
7 There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as a unique copy, and which it is forbidden to read.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
8 So far in this book the Thenardiers have been viewed only in profile; the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and considering it under all its aspects.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
9 The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
10 The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume precipitately.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
11 Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE