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It is said that Baroche revenged himself for the rebuff by whispering to an acquaintance near him: "This Monsieur Hugo is madder still than is supposed." Over the coffin, as it was laid under the ground near the ashes of Charles Nodier and Casimir Delavigne, the author of Les Miserables and Les Feuilles d'Automne pronounced an oration which was a generous tribute to the talent of his great rival.
To quote the Russian moralist upon the book: "'Une Vie' is a romance of the best type, and in my judgment the greatest that has been produced by any French writer since Victor Hugo penned 'Les Miserables. Passing over the force and directness of the narrative, I am struck by the intensity, the grace, and the insight with which the writer treats the new aspects of human nature which he finds in the life he describes."
But a few hours later, even as Big Ben is booming six, the "Miserables" will be again waiting, silently waiting for the rolls of bread and the cups of soup, and having received them will again mysteriously disappear, to go through the same routine at twelve o'clock on the morrow. Aye! and to return on every morrow when soup and rolls are to be had. It looks very pitiful, this mass of misery.
His coarse, large, germinating spirit gave forth, like the earth, a teeming richness, a solid, palpable creation. And thus it was he who achieved what Hugo, in Les Misérables, had in vain attempted.
I'm reading Les Miserables for the seventh time, and I'm going to have a real ORGY over Gervaise and the barricade this afternoon!" She looked more like Charlotte Corday! On week-days she did not return to the house for lunch, my only meal at Mrs. She was not altogether out of my thoughts, however indeed, she almost divided them with the Honorable David Beasley.
"All very well in that generation- ces bons jours quand nous etions si miserables," said Gerald, in his low, maundering voice. "Prosperity means the lack of object." "Does it?" "In these days when everything is used up." "Not to those two " "Happy folk, never to lose the sense of achievement!" "Poor old man! You talk as if you were twenty years older than Uncle Lance."
Il n'y a point de passé vide ou pauvre, il n'y a point d'événements misérables, il n'y a que des événements misérablement accueillis. Magdalen went back to her own room, and set down her candle on the dressing-table with a hand that trembled a little. "I ought not to have gone," she said half aloud, "and yet I knew she was awake and in trouble. And she nearly spoke to me to-day.
She wanted to stay where she was; but tears were dangerous; the more she wept, the weaker she would become defensively. She rose briskly, turned on the light, and opened Les Misérables to the episode of the dark forest: where Jean Valjean reaches out and takes Cosette's frightful pail from her chapped little hands. There must be persons tender and loving in this world.
It is to something of all this that Victor Hugo wishes to open men's eyes in "Les Misérables"; and this moral lesson is worked out in masterly coincidence with the artistic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we read.
The kittens were born in the early days of the great renown of Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables, when everybody was talking of the new masterpiece, and the names of the personages in it were in every mouth. The two little male creatures were called Enjolras and Gavroche, and their sister received the name of Eponine.
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