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...befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good work by the appearance of this symbol of lawful duty, this relentless fury. In the end, he saves his oppressor's life...
...father, the late Sir Jocelyn Gore-Booth, first had good reason to know his daughter's metal in 1900. She, aged at that time 32, roused his Irish tenants to rebel against him, and made use of the the clutches of his guardianship and flee to Paris...
...glamor of love seems to flee very soon. We wonder what we can do to retain that elusive thing called romance...
...fuse before explosion happens. Therefore, last week, when a bomb hurtled past Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff as he was entering his house at Sofia and rolled ahead of him down the dark hall, the worst was not necessarily to be feared. . . . Experienced, adept, Chief Ikonomoff did not flee out into the street, but sought to protect his household by darting forward to extinguish the bomb. Similarly Little Tsar Boris, when fired upon by assassins (TIME, April 27, 1925), whipped out a heavy automatic pistol and fired back. . . . As Chief Ikonomoff searched rapidly in the dark hallway...
...tradition of old New Orleans, the old days. Again there are the shouts of glee of the carousing students as they flee away to the boat landings. Again there are the boomings of curfew cannon warning sailors, slaves and soldiers off the dreamy streets. Again the fortifications of the town ring with the shots of Jean and Pierre Lafitte as the two pirates bombard the village in the dead still night...