The Novels of Victor Hugo, Fully Translated (Volume 14); Les Miserables I. Fantine, Tr. Bywilliam Walton. 2v. II. Cosette, Tr. by J.C.Beckwith. 2v. III. Marius, Tr.by Jules Gray. 2v. IV. the Idyl of the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis, Tr. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... The door of the attic was violently thrown open, disclosing three men in blue cloth blouses, wearing masks of black paper. The first was thin, and carried a long, iron-shod cudgel; the second, who was a sort of Colossus, held, by the middle of the handle, with the hatchet down, a butcher's pole-axe. The third, a broad-shouldered fellow, not so thin as the first, but not so heavy as the second, held in his clenched fist an enormous key stolen from some prison-gate. It seemed as if Jondrette had been awaiting the arrival of these men. A hurried conversation took place between him and the man with the cudgel, the thin man. "Is all ready?" asked Jondrette. "Yes," replied the thin man. "Then where is Montparnasse?" "The young premier stopped to talk to your daughter." "Which?" "The eldest." "Is there a coach down there?" "Yes." "Is the maringotte ready?" "It is." "With two good horses?" "Excellent ones." "Is it waiting where I said it should wait?" "Yes." "All right," said Jondrette. Monsieur Leblanc was very pale. He looked all round the den like a man who understands into what he has fallen, and his head, turning toward all the heads that surrounded him, moved on his neck with an attentive and surprised slowness, but there was nothing in his appearance that resembled fear. He had formed of the table an improvised bulwark; and this man who, a moment before, looked simply like a good old man, had suddenly become a sort of athlete, and laid his powerful fist on the back of his chair with a formidable and surprising gesture. This old man, so firm and brave in the presence of such a danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are courageous in the same way as they are good--easily and naturally. The father of a woman we love is never a stranger to us. Ma...