COSETTE in Classic Quotes

1  The woman took Cosette's outfit to Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK

2  Cosette could not make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of violent blows and unmerited chastisement.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK

3  Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to theirs.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK

4  Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child diminished the air which her daughters breathed.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK

5  But out of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into Pepita, and Francoise into Sillette.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER

6  If she had not had Cosette, it is certain that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to herself.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK