1 To repose smacked of luxury and respect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 2 In this respect, the ascetic and the sage converge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW 3 Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 4 They were staring at him from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 5 There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 6 We are among those who respect everything which is in the nature of a rare plant.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 7 Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a convent with respectful accents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ... 8 As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 9 We have spoken of this singular place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and respect are compatible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 10 About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as Madame Albertine.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 11 This is a very rare mixture which inspires intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ... 12 This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel ourselves overpowered with respect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA 13 When he had leased this paltry building for the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what the English call respectability for his house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 14 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 HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ...