1 A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ... 2 That forms a part of my gardener's duty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ... 3 He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there.
4 The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY 5 Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was the gardener's bell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS 6 He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener could have wished to see him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 7 The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at the gardener.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 8 The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the gardener on business.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ... 9 He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found himself a gardener once more.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 10 With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered the convent, as we have already said.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS 11 The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since.
12 And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF ... 13 Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's bed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 14 Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 15 This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and whose place Fauchelevent had taken.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 16 That phantom which he had seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ... 17 An offer of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in the dark, and that not unintentionally.
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