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Speaker:>> Brie Carlisle: Today well be continuing les miserable
Speaker:by Victor Hugo
Speaker:chapter three sommes deposited
Speaker:with Lafitte. On the
Speaker:other hand, he remained as simple as on the first
Speaker:day. He had gray hair, a
Speaker:serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a
Speaker:laborer, the thoughtful visage of a
Speaker:philosopher. He habitually wore a hat
Speaker:with a wide brim and a long coat of coarse
Speaker:cloth buttoned to the chin. He fulfilled
Speaker:his duties as mayor, but with that exception he
Speaker:lived in solitude. He spoke to but
Speaker:few people. He avoided polite
Speaker:attentions. He escaped quickly.
Speaker:He smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of
Speaker:talking. He gave in order to get rid of
Speaker:the necessity for smiling. The women said of
Speaker:him what a good natured bear.
Speaker:His pleasure consisted in strolling in the fields.
Speaker:He always took his meals alone with an open book before
Speaker:him, which he read. He had a
Speaker:well selected little library. He loved
Speaker:books. Books are cold but safe
Speaker:friends in proportion as leisure came
Speaker:to him with fortune. He seemed to take advantage of it to
Speaker:cultivate his mind it had been observed that
Speaker:ever since his arrival at M. Surim M. His language had grown
Speaker:more polished, more choice, and more gentle
Speaker:with every passing year. He liked to carry
Speaker:a gun with him on strolls, but he rarely made use of
Speaker:it when he did happen to do so. His
Speaker:shooting was something so infallible as to inspire
Speaker:terror. He never killed an inoffensive
Speaker:animal. he never shot at a little bird. Although
Speaker:he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still
Speaker:prodigiously strong. He offered his
Speaker:assistance to anyone who was in need of it, lifted
Speaker:a horse, released a wheel, clogged in the mud, or
Speaker:stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He
Speaker:always had his pockets full of money when he went out,
Speaker:but they were empty on his return. When he
Speaker:passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously
Speaker:after him and surrounded him like a swarm of
Speaker:gnats. It was thought that he must,
Speaker:in the past, have lived a country life, since he knew
Speaker:all sorts of useful secrets which he taught to the peasants.
Speaker:He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat by
Speaker:sprinkling it in the granary and inundating the cracks
Speaker:on the floor with a solution of common salt. And
Speaker:how to chase away weevils by hanging up, orvate and bloom
Speaker:everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings,
Speaker:among the grass and in the houses. He
Speaker:had recipes for exterminating from a field
Speaker:blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic
Speaker:growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a
Speaker:rabbit warren against rats simply by the odor of a
Speaker:guinea pig, which he placed in it. One day
Speaker:he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up
Speaker:medals. He examined the plants which were
Speaker:uprooted, and already Dryden said,
Speaker:they are dead. Nevertheless, it would be
Speaker:a good thing to know how to make use of them. When the
Speaker:nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable.
Speaker:When it is older, it has filaments and fibers like
Speaker:hemp and flax. Nettle cloth is as good as
Speaker:linen cloth. Chopped up nettles are good for
Speaker:poultry. Pounded, they are good for horned
Speaker:cattle. The seed of the nettle mixed with fodder
Speaker:gives gloss to the hair of animals. The root
Speaker:mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring
Speaker:matter. Moreover, it is an excellent
Speaker:hay, which can be cut twice. And what is
Speaker:required for the nettle? A, little soil, no
Speaker:care, no culture. Only the seed falls
Speaker:as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it.
Speaker:That is all. With the, exercise of a little
Speaker:care, the nettle could be made useful. It is
Speaker:neglected, and it becomes hurtful it is
Speaker:exterminated how many men resemble the
Speaker:nettle, he added after a pause.
Speaker:Remember this, my friends. There are no such things as
Speaker:bad plants or bad men. There are only bad
Speaker:cultivators. The children loved him because
Speaker:he knew how to make charming little trifles of straw and
Speaker:coconuts. When he saw the door of a church hung in
Speaker:black, he entered. He sought out
Speaker:funerals as other men seek christenings.
Speaker:Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him because of
Speaker:his great gentleness. He mingled with the friends
Speaker:clad in mourning, with families dressed in
Speaker:black. With the priests groaning around a
Speaker:coffin. He seemed to like to give to
Speaker:his thoughts for text. These funeral psalmodies
Speaker:filled with the vision of the other world. With his eyes
Speaker:fixed on heaven, he listened with a sort of aspiration
Speaker:towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad
Speaker:voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of
Speaker:death. He performed a multitude of good
Speaker:actions, concealing his agency in them, as a man
Speaker:conceals himself because of evil actions.
Speaker:He penetrated houses privately. At night.
Speaker:He ascended staircases furtively.
Speaker:A poor wretch, on returning to his attic. Would find that his
Speaker:door had been opened, sometimes even forced.
Speaker:During his absence. The poor man made
Speaker:a clamor over it. Some malfactor had been
Speaker:there. He entered, and the first thing he beheld
Speaker:was a piece of gold lying forgotten on, some piece of furniture.
Speaker:The malefactor who had been there was Father Madeleine.
Speaker:He was affable and sad. The people
Speaker:said, theres a rich man who has not a haughty heir.
Speaker:Theres a happy man who has not a contented air.
Speaker:Some people maintained that he was a mysterious
Speaker:person and that no one ever entered his
Speaker:chamber, which was a regular anchorite cell,
Speaker:furnished with winged hourglasses and enlivened
Speaker:by crossbones and skulls of dead men.
Speaker:This was much talked of so that one of
Speaker:the elegant and malicious young women of M. Sur m m. Came to
Speaker:him one day and asked, Monsieur le Maire,
Speaker:pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a
Speaker:grotto. He smiled and introduced
Speaker:them instantly into this grotto. They were well
Speaker:punished for their curiosity. The room was very
Speaker:simply furnished in mahogany, which was
Speaker:rather ugly, like all furniture of that sort,
Speaker:and hung with paper worth twelve sous.
Speaker:They could see nothing remarkable about it except two
Speaker:candlesticks of antique pattern. Which stood on the chimney piece
Speaker:and appeared to be silver. For they were
Speaker:hallmarked an observation full of the type of wit
Speaker:of petty towns. Nevertheless,
Speaker:people continued to say that no one ever got into the
Speaker:room and that it was a hermits cave, a
Speaker:mysterious retreat, a hole, a
Speaker:tomb. It was also whispered about that he
Speaker:had immense sums deposited with lafitte,
Speaker:with.
Speaker:>> Brie Carlisle: This peculiar feature that they were always.
Speaker:>> Brie Carlisle: At his immediate disposal. So that it was
Speaker:added, Monsieur Madeleine could make his appearance at
Speaker:Lafitte any morning, sign a receipt, and
Speaker:carry off his two or three millions in ten minutes.
Speaker:In reality, these two or three millions were
Speaker:reducible, as we have said, to
Speaker:630 or 40,000 francs.
Speaker:Thank you for joining bite at a time books today. while we read a
Speaker:bite of one of your favorite classics. Again,
Speaker:my name is Brie carlisle, and I hope you come back
Speaker:tomorrow for the next bite of le
Speaker:Miserable.
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