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Les Miserables

Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Brother as depicted by the Sister

Word Count: 1463    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

r feminine instincts even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to explain them, we cannot d

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een square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. Wha

ry much cramped. The country is trying in the winter, and we really must do something for those wh

gine! the door of our house is never fastened. Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once

xposes himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to ha

he travels in winter. He fears neither suspici

nothing had happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and said, "This is the way I have been rob

ding him a little, taking care, however, not to speak except whe

leep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his imprudences. But now the habit has been acquir

derstand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to the care of Provi

family of the generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Etienne-Alexandre, and was commander of a regiment, and

l. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in not wasting the few moments which sh

makes me very happy. My health is not so very bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell

one riding by on horseback who had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a cha

y let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered with him by so much as a word or sign,in any action once entered upon. At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then they

, that her brother's end would prove her own. M

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1 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 1 M. Myriel 2 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 2 M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome3 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 3 A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop4 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 4 Works corresponding to Words5 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 5 Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long 6 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 6 Who guarded his House for him7 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 7 Cravatte8 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 8 Philosophy after Drinking9 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Brother as depicted by the Sister 10 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 10 The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light11 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 11 A Restriction12 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 12 The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome 13 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 13 What he believed 14 Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 14 What he thought15 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 1 The Evening of a Day of Walking16 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 2 Prudence counselled to Wisdom17 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 3 The Heroism of Passive Obedience18 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 4 Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier19 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 5 Tranquillity20 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 6 Jean Valjean21 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 7 The Interior of Despair22 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 8 Billows and Shadows23 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 9 New Troubles24 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 10 The Man aroused25 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 11 What he does26 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 12 The Bishop works27 Part 1 Book 2 Chapter 13 LITTLE GERVAIS28 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 1 The Year 181729 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 2 A Double Quartette30 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 3 Four and Four31 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 4 Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty32 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 5 At Bombardas33 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 6 A Chapter in which they adore Each Other34 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 7 The Wisdom of Tholomyes35 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 8 The Death of a Horse36 Part 1 Book 3 Chapter 9 A Merry End to Mirth37 Part 1 Book 4 Chapter 1 One Mother meets Another Mother38 Part 1 Book 4 Chapter 2 First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures39 Part 1 Book 4 Chapter 3 The Lark40 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 1 The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets41 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 2 Madeleine42 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 3 Sums deposited with Laffitte43 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 4 M. Madeleine in Mourning44 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 5 Vague Flashes on the Horizon45 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 6 Father Fauchelevent46 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 7 Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris47 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 8 Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality48 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 10 Result of the Success49 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 11 Christus nos Liberavit50 Part 1 Book 5 Chapter 13 The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police51 Part 1 Book 6 Chapter 1 The Beginning of Repose52 Part 1 Book 6 Chapter 2 How Jean may become Champ53 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 1 Sister Simplice54 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 2 The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire55 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 3 A Tempest in a Skull56 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 4 Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep57 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 5 Hindrances58 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 6 Sister Simplice put to the Proof59 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 7 The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure60 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 8 An Entrance by Favor61 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 9 A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation62 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 10 The System of Denials63 Part 1 Book 7 Chapter 11 Champmathieu more and more Astonished64 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 1 In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair65 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 2 Fantine Happy66 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 3 Javert Satisfied67 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 4 Authority reasserts its Rights68 Part 1 Book 8 Chapter 5 A Suitable Tomb69 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 1 What is met with on the Way from Nivelles70 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 2 Hougomont71 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 3 The Eighteenth of June, 181572 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 4 A73 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 5 The Quid Obscurum of Battles74 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 7 Napoleon in a Good Humor75 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 8 The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste76 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 9 The Unexpected77 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 10 The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean78 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 11 A Bad Guide to Napoleon79 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 12 The Guard80 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 13 The Catastrophe81 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 14 The Last Square82 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 15 Cambronne83 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 16 Quot Libras in Duce84 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 17 Is Waterloo to be considered Good85 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 18 A Recrudescence of Divine Right86 Part 2 Book 1 Chapter 19 The Battle-Field at Night87 Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 1 Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,43088 Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 2 In which the reader will peruse Two Verses89 Part 2 Book 2 Chapter 3 The Ankle-Chain must have undergone a Certain90 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 1 The Water Question at Montfermeil91 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 2 Two Complete Portraits92 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 3 Men must have Wine, and Horses must have Water93 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 4 Entrance on the Scene of a Doll94 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 5 The Little One All Alone95 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 7 Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark96 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 8 The Unpleasantness of receiving97 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 9 Thenardier at his Manoeuvres98 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 10 He who seeks to better himself may render his Situation Worse99 Part 2 Book 3 Chapter 11 Number 9,430 reappears, and Cosette wins it in the Lottery100 Part 2 Book 4 Chapter 1 Master Gorbeau