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Mangedentelle. Les-pieds-en-l'Air. Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. Etc., etc. We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the under side of civilization.
The inspector muttered: "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards." He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." Then he glanced at Marius.
Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. Thenardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise condemned to death.
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