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CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

Do you want a priest? I have one. answered Jean Valjean.

This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven.

One thing had amazed him,—this was that Jean Valjean should have done him a favor, and one thing petrified him,—that he, Javert, should have done Jean Valjean a favor.

Afirmava que tinha 'um sistema'. No mais, um espertalhão. Um filósofo. Existe gente assim.

Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : ? The publisher's response: !

The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .

Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.

There was a coffin containing a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but no one was aware of it.

As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it. Madame Magloire, said he, fetch me a chair. My greatness [grandeur] does not reach as far as that shelf.

The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.

So it's the silver you're worrying about.' said the bishop. 'I can't tell you where that is.

This demonstrates the novel truth—that great events have incalculable consequences.

uttering that terrific cry:

On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.

It is particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is dangerous to have extremes meet.

a Breton archer from the guard of Monsieur de Berry.

Who's there? cried a toothless voice.

You know what the say about finding a man in Alaska - the odds are good, but the goods are odd." - The Great Alone

You don't reason with men like Hitler.

The most amazing part of this science-fiction moment was that her mother actually believed what she just said.