1 He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop.
2 Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop immediately after a major-general.
3 The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work.
4 Myriel received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen thousand francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 5 As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 6 He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to bless.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 7 It is hard for a senator and a bishop to look at each other without winking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 8 When he talks, he says that a bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 9 good God with my brother and my bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 10 Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 11 A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbes, just as a general is by a covey of young officers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 12 Every bishop who possesses the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 13 To please a bishop is equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 14 , at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 15 The apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT