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to take it
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at a time
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so many adventures and mountains
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we can climb
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take it word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Byte at a time books, where we read you your favorite
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing. Les miserables by
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Victor Hugo chapter
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five Basque and Nicolette
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he had theories. Here is one of
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them. When a man is passionately fond of
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women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he
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cares but little, who is homely, cross
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legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the code and
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jealous at need, there is but one way of
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extricating himself from the quandary and of procuring
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peace, and that is to let his wife control the purse
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strings. This abdication sets him
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free. Then his wife busies herself,
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grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her
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fingers covered with verdigris in the process,
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undertakes the education of half shared tenants and the training
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of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides
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over notaries, harangues scriveners,
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visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits,
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draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels
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herself the sovereignty, sells, buys,
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regulates, promises and compromises,
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binds fast the annuals, yields,
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concedes and retroceds, arranges,
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disarranges hoards, lavishes, she
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commits follies, a supreme and personal
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delight, and that consoles her.
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While her husband disdains her, she has the satisfaction of
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ruining her husband. This theory
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Monsieur Gillenormand had himself applied to, and it had
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become his history. His wife, the
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second one, had administered his fortune in such a manner
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that one fine day, when M. De Lenormand
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found himself a widower, there remained to him just
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sufficient to live on by sinking nearly the
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whole of it in an annuity of 15,000
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francs, three quarters of which would expire with
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him. He had not hesitated on this
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point, not being anxious to leave a property behind
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him. Besides, he had noticed that
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patrimonies are subject to adventures
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and, for instance, become national
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property. He had been present at the
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avatars of consolidated three percents,
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and he had no great faith in the great book of the public
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debt. Thats the rue
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Quincampoy, he said. His house in the
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rue de Philade, Calvert, belongs to him. As
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we have already stated, he had two servants,
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a male and a female. When a servant
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entered his establishment, Monsieur Gillenormand rebaptized
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him. He bestowed on the men the name of their
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province. Nimwoi. Comtoy.
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Podevin Picard, his last valet, was
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a big, foundered, short winded fellow of 55
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who was incapable of running 20 paces. But
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as he had been born at Bayonne, Monsieur de
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Lenormand called him Basque. All the female servants
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in his house were called Nicolette, even the
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Magnan, of whom we shall hear more further on.
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One day, a haughty cook, a cordon bleu of the
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lofty race of porters, presented herself. How
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much wages do you want a month? Asked Monsieur de la
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Normand. 30 francs. What is your
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name? Olympi. You shall have 50
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francs, and you shall be called Nicolette.
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Thank you for joining Byte at a time. Books today
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while we read a bite of one of your favorite classics.
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Again, my name is Brie Carlisle, and.
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>> Brie Carlisle: I hope you come back tomorrow for.
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>> Brie Carlisle: The next bite of Le Miserable.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Taking chapter by chapter, one
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night at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb.
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Take it word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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You.
