1 He has regulated all his charities.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 2 Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 3 He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 4 Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the Revolution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 5 There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered.
6 One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went to his library in search of a book.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 7 The visit ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his house.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 8 The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 9 Myriel received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen thousand francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 10 The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking measures and calculations with his eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 11 The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, with scandalized eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 12 Monseigneur has not even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 13 He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry.
14 Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 15 One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lo, rarely allowed an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she designated as "the expectations" of her three sons.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 16 It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families.
17 The youngest of the three was to receive from a grand-aunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to succeed to the peerage of his grandfather.
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