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1 Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel which he had purchased.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ...
2 At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh.
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3 And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow.
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4 The charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the brazier to heat.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
5 He halted at an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, which he concealed beneath his great-coat.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES
6 He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile of rope, and bent down as though to examine something.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
7 Thenardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with tiny scarlet stars.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP