Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

“To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest re…”

“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.”

“In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery …”

“We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not …”