1 Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near the chimney-corner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE... 2 This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down in it at her ease.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE... 3 Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE... 4 At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that wonderful doll, towards the lady, as she called it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 5 Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked along.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 6 Then she seized her bucket again; fear had lent her audacity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 7 She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it on the grass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 8 She would have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 9 The agitated water in the bucket beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 10 In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 11 She took breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she was obliged to pause.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 12 She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 13 At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 14 This man, without uttering a word, had seized the handle of the bucket which she was carrying.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 15 He drew near, and perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket of water.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...