1 I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good that I was able.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and his greatest labor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 3 This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly on the part of Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 4 I did not think that I had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 5 He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he insults it, he clings to the rout.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 6 But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him imperiously in the opposite direction.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 7 Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it has been our duty to enter it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA 8 le Duc de Havre, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated in the carriage, opposite the king.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ... 9 In the absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of the jury of what he said here a few hours ago.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 10 The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 11 Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of his coat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 12 No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 13 It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 14 It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, that his first duty was not towards himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 15 The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his goal, without once flinching in the line of his advancement and his interest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 16 They will follow up such and such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn a porter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ... 17 On the other hand, to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back there in appearance was to escape from it in reality.
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