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1  Wealthy travellers are not so polite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
2  The spirit of the ambush entered into their politics.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
3  Its sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
4  The Thenardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in the room.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
5  His cunning began here; he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  The female Thenardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and talking politics.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
7  Madeleine had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an old fund of Bonapartism about him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ...
8  The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some respects, a deferential gravity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ...