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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing les miserable by

Victor Hugo chapter

six, in which Magnan and her two children are

seen with himon,

Sergill and Normand, sorrow was

converted into wrath. He was furious at being

in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices

and took all sorts of liberties, one of the

facts of which his exterior relief and his internal

satisfaction was composed. Washington, as we

have just hinted that he had remained a brisk

spark, and that he had passed energetically for

such. This he called having

royal renown. This royal renown

sometimes drew down upon him singular windfalls.

One day it was brought to him in a basket, as

though it had been a basket of oysters. A stout,

newly born boy who was yelling like the

deuce and duly wrapped in swaddling

clothes, which a servant made dismissed six months

previously attributed to him.

Monsieur Jilohm Normand had at that time fully

completed his 84th year

indignation and uproar in the establishment.

And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade

to believe that. What audacity. What

an abominable calamity. Monsieur

Gillenormand himself was not at all enraged.

He gazed at the brat with an amiable smile of a good man

who was flattered by the calumny and said in an

aside, well, what now?

Whats the matter? Youre finally taken aback,

and really, youre excessively ignorant. Monsieur le

duc d'Ang, the bastard of

his Majesty Charles IX, married a silly jade

of 15 when he was 85. Monsieur

Virginal, marquis des brother to

the cardinal de Sordes, Archbishop of

Bordeaux, had, at the age of 83, by the maid

of Madame le Presidente Jacquin, a

son, a real child of love, who

became a chevalier of Malta and a counselor of

state. One of the great men of the century,

the abbe Tabarad, is the son of a man of

87. There is nothing out of the

ordinary in these things. And then the

Bible. Upon that I declare that this

little gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken

care of. It is not its fault.

This manner of procedure was good tempered.

The woman, whose name was Magnan, sent him another parcel. In the

following year, it was a boy again.

Thereupon, M. De Lenormand capitulated.

He sent the two brats back to their mother, promising to pay

80 francs a month for their maintenance. On the condition

that the said mother would not do so any more.

He added, I insist upon it that the mother shall

treat them well. I shall go to see them from time to

time. And this he did.

He had had a brother who was a priest,

and who would have been rector of the Academy of

pointiers for three and 30 years, and had died

at 79. I lost him young,

said he, this brother, of whom but little memory

remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being

a priest, thought himself bound to bestow alms on the poor

whom he methadore, but he never gave them anything except

bad or demonetized sous, thereby

discovering a means of going to hell by way of paradise.

As for Monsieur Gillenormand, the elder, he

never haggled over his almsgiving, but gave

gladly and nobly. He was

kindly, abrupt, charitable. And if he had

been rich, his turn of mind would have been magnificent.

He desired that all which concerned him should be done in a grand

manner, even his rogueries.

One day, having been cheated by a businessman in a matter of

inheritance, in a gross and apparent manner,

he uttered this solemn exclamation.

This was indecently done. I am really ashamed

of this pilfering. Everything had

degenerated in this century. Even the

rascals more blue. This is not the way to rob a man

of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest,

but badly robbed. Sylvius and Consul

Dignae. he had had two wives, as we have already

mentioned. By the first, he had had a daughter

who had remained unmarried, and by the second, another

daughter who had died at about the age of 30,

who had wedded through love or

chance or otherwise, a soldier of

fortune who had served in the armies of the republic and of the

empire, who had won the cross at

Austerlitz and had been made colonel at

Waterloo. He is a disgrace of my family,

said the old bourgois. He took an immense

amount of snuff and had a particularly graceful manner of

plucking at his lace ruffle with the back of one hand.

He believed very little in God.

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Again, my name is Brie Carlisle, and I

hope you come back tomorrow, for the next bite of

le Miserable.

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