1 The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 2 At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thenardiers promptly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M... 3 Among these details the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we preserve out of respect for the truth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 4 We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 5 This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO... 6 At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO... 7 If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE 8 The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going in that direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 9 The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad details.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 10 As for his prowess at Waterloo, the reader is already acquainted with that.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 11 The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thenardiers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 12 An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further on.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 13 To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 14 The reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 15 We mention the fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the reader's mind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS