Identifier: worksofvictorhug00hugo (find matches)
Title: Works of Victor Hugo
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, ed Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir, 1840-1912
Subjects: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Publisher: New York : National Library Co.
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to re-treat ; and in this posture of a wild beast about to bite heexclaimed: — My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette; myname is Thenardier. I am the landlord of the inn at Mont-fermeil! Do you hear me? Thenardier! Now do yourecognize me? An almost imperceptible flush shot athwart M. Leblancsbrow, and he answered, with his usual placidity, and withoutthe slightest tremor in his voice: — No more than before. Marius did not hear this answer. Any one who had seenhim at that moment in the darkness would have seen that hewas haggard, stunned, and bewildered. When Jondrette said, My name is Thenardier, Marius trembled in every limb,and leaned against the wall, as if a cold sword-blade had beenthrust through his heart. Then his right hand, raised inreadiness to fire, dropped slowly; and when Jondrette re-peated, Do you hear me? Thenardier! Mariuss relaxingringers almost let the pistol fall. Jondrette, by revealing histrue name, did not affect M. Leblanc, but he stunned Marius;
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My name is not Fabanton, my name is not Jondrette; myThtnanlier. I am the landlord of the inn at Montfermeil. Les Miserable*. Marias: Page 244. MARIUS 245 for he knew that name of Thenardier, which was apparentlyunknown to M. Leblanc. Only remember what that namemeant to him! He had carried it in his heart; it was recordedin his fathers will! He bore it in his innermost thoughts,in the deepest shrine of his memory, in the sacred injunction,A man of the name of Thenardier saved my life; if myson meet this man, let him do all he can for him. Thisname, it will be remembered, was one of the pieties of his soul,and he mingled it with his fathers name in his prayers.What! This man was Thenardier, the landlord of Montfer-meil, whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He hadfound him at last, and how? His fathers saviour was abandit! The man to whom Marius burned to devote his lifewas a monster! The liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was onthe point of committing a crime, whose scope Marius did

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