1 Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 2 The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work.
3 "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 4 On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 5 Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution.
6 No one would have dared to mention them; no one would have dared to recall them.
7 He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop.
8 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 9 The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 10 Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar.
11 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 12 What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
13 Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
14 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.
15 It will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 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 Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese.
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