Excerpt from Les Misérables, Vol. 1
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only, - noise, sayings, words, less than words - pala bres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it....
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