Isabel Hapgood

The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, with the magnifying powers of terror

To dare; that is the price of progress.

Would you abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction?

with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a heart absolutely sombre and empty.

Still, he had a father and a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not love him.

malady of the chest

What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel?

sake of exactness in all points

occupied the see

destining him to be the heir of his own post,