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Les Miserables

CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
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In the winter they break this bread up with an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it eatable.

My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of you!" Born a Provencal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of the south.

He said, "En be! moussu, ses sage ?" as in lower Languedoc; "Onte anaras passa ?" as in the Basses-Alpes; "Puerte un bouen moutu embe un bouen fromage grase," as in upper Dauphine.

This pleased the people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all spirits.

He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the mountains.


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