1 One end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 2 The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 3 It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 4 His wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative of astonishment.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 5 He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting his muddy boots to the brazier.
6 A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 7 His daughters were seated on the floor near the fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 8 The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 9 Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 10 There was every sort of thing in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 11 Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only the most indispensable articles of furniture.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 12 The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from the window, and nearest to the fireplace.
13 The hovel was completely illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 14 Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a stone statue walking.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 15 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 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 16 Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, so it was let for forty francs a year.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 17 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.
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