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1  Madeleine has promised it to me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
2  Only promise me that you will smile.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
3  You have promised me to become an honest man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
4  We have promised them solemnly that we would.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
5  The night promised to be as arid as the day had been.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
6  Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF ...
7  "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL
8  He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed himself to be drawn.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE ...
9  The snow promised by the Candlemas sun of the preceding day had actually come.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
10  Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, remained speechless.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
11  Only, the Thenardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
12  He had promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, above all to a convict.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
13  The two children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which had given them bread and had promised them a shelter.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
14  At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
15  Leblanc had promised to return in the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
16  As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
17  The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of handsome eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ...
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