1 And he held out a silver coin to the Thenardier.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 2 Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 3 Thenardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 4 In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught sight of him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 5 She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at him with a gloomy air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 6 Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 7 Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin without saying a word, and put it in that pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ... 8 A wretched man, being at the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for a woman, and for the child which he had had by her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 9 Mabeuf, in his venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 10 Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and silver, precious stones, coins.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU. 11 Every one has noticed with what nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable.
12 On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and made haste to warn Javert.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 13 It also happened occasionally that he encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver coin, and walked rapidly away.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT 14 At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 15 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