Excerpt from Les Mis rables, Vol. 1 The Emperor, on the same evening, asked the Cardinal the cur 's name, and some time after M. Myriel, to his great surprise, learned that he was nominated Bishop of D What truth, by the way, was there in the stories about M. Myriel's early life? N 0 one know, for few persons had been acquainted with his family before the Revolution. M. Myriel was fated to undergo the lot of every new comer to a little town, where there are many mouths that Speak, and but few heads that think. He was obliged to undergo it, though he was bishop, and because he was bishop. But, after all, the stories in which his name was mingled were only stories, rumors, words, remarks, less than words, mere palabres, to use a term borrowed from the ener getic language of the South. Whatever they might be, after ten years of episcopacy and residence at D all this gossip, which at the outset affords matter of conversation for little towns and little people, had fallen into deep Oblivion. No one would have dared to speak of it, no one have dared to remember it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.