Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be usel…”

“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, …”

“Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Mon…”

“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrec…”