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1  I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
2  He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
3  Some one who had known them in their own country had seen his sister.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
4  He took the father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought him up.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
5  Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, did he hear his sister mentioned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
6  As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came a knock at the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
7  Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a general, the other a prefect.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
8  Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
9  This is one which his sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was so monstrous."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
10  This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a husband she lodged and fed her young brother.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
12  At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO ...
13  Never, since his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
14  They have, in the country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
15  A moment later, the Bishop, knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the dining-room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
16  One morning he was in his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
17  As he ate his breakfast, Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit of bread in a cup of milk.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
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