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1  Still, he had a father and a mother.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
2  Probably because his father's name was Jondrette.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
3  He did not know exactly how a father and mother should be.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
4  But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not love him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
5  The boy, whose name was Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
6  The father had yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to flowers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
7  He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man was dead, and a chill ran over him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
8  Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his father on the following morning.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
9  Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
10  He did not love his grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and his feelings towards his father were gloomy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
11  He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
12  For in his own mind, he agreed with the Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the title of either colonel or baron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
13  After the interment he returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
14  This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
15  Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in the heart of man.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
16  At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated that his name was Jondrette.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
17  The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the cells which we have already mentioned.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
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