1 This garden was about an acre and a half in extent.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 2 Jean Valjean had left the garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 3 This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 4 The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become extraordinary and charming.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 5 Unless seen through the garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in the Rue Plumet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 6 The experiments on indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which had a bad exposure.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 7 Nothing in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; venerable growth reigned there among them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 8 In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 9 This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in former times.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 10 Mabeuf no longer knew his books, his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, pleasure, and hope had assumed for him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 11 It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste mysteries.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 12 He had dined on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 13 Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast arm-chairs; she had the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 14 This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, solitary as a tomb, living as a throng.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 15 Eponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpetriere.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE ... 16 This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, a boudoir up stairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a garden with a large gate opening on the street.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 17 It was the continuation of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one that opened on the street.
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