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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look, in the book and let's see
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Take it chapter by chapter. One
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fight M at a time
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so many adventures and
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mountains we can climb
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to give word for word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Welcome to bite at a time books where we read you your
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favorite classics one byte at a time. my name is
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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be
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continuing.
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Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
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chapter two like master
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like house, he
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lived in the Marais, rue des Phila du
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Calvert, number six. He owned the
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house. This house has since been
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demolished and rebuilt, and the number has probably been
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changed in those revolutions of numeration which the streets
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of Paris undergo. He occupied
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an ancient and vast apartment on the first floor
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between street and gardens,
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furnished to the very ceilings with great goblins and
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bouvet tapestries representing pastoral
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scenes. The subjects of the ceilings
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and the panels were repeated in miniature on the
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armchairs. He enveloped his bed in a
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vast nine leaved screen of coromandel lacquer.
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Long full curtains hung from the windows
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and formed great broken folds that were very
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magnificent. The garden, situated
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immediately under his windows, was attached to that one of them, which
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formed the angle by means of a staircase
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twelve or 15 steps long, which the old gentleman
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ascended and descended with great agility. in addition to
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a library adjoining his chamber, he had a
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boudoir of which he thought a great deal a
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gallant and elegant retreat with magnificent hangings
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of straw with a pattern of flowers and fleur de Lisden, made
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on the galleys of Louis XIV, and ordered a
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pair of his convicts by Monsieur de Vivonne for his
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mistress. Monsieur de Lenormand
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had inherited it from a grim, maternal great aunt who
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had died a centenarian. He had had two
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wives. His manners were something between those of
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the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer,
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which he might have been. He was gay and
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caressing when he had a mind. In his youth,
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he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their wives
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and never by their mistresses, because they
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are at the same time the most sullen of
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husbands and the most charming of lovers in existence.
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He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in
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his chamber a marvelous portrait of no one knows whom,
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painted by jordans, executed with great
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dashes of the brush, with millions of
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details in a confused and haphazard
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manner. Monsieur Gillenormands attire
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was not the habit of Louis XIV, nor
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yet that of Louis XVI. It was that
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of the incroyables of the directory. He had
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thought himself young up to that period and had followed the
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fashions. His coat was of lightweight
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cloth with voluminous revers, a long
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swallow tail, and large steel buttons.
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With this, he wore knee breeches and buckle shoes.
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He always thrust his hands into his fobs.
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He said authoritatively, the french revolution
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is a heap of blackguards.
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Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while
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we read a bite of one of your favorite classics.
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Again, my name is Brie Carlisle, and I
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hope you come back tomorrow for the next bite
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of Les Miserables.
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>> Brie Carlisle: Dont forget to sign up for our
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>> Brie Carlisle: take a look, and let's
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see what we can find.
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Take it chapter by chapter,
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one at a time
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mountains we can climb
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take your word go word, line by
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line, one bite at a time.
