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Les Miserables, a novel by Victor Hugo |
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VOLUME III - BOOK SECOND - THE GREAT BOURGEOIS - CHAPTER VII. Rule: Receive No One except in the Evening |
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_ Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,-- which was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and great. In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. |