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of M。 Myriel’s life?No one knew。 Very few families had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution。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– palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it。
However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of residence in D—-, all the stories and subjects of conversation which engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into profound oblivion。No one would have dared to mention them; no one would have dared to recall them。M。 Myriel had arrived at D—- accompanied by an elderly spinster, Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior。Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been the servant of M。
le Cure, now assumed the double title of maid to Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur。Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she realized the ideal expressed by the word “respectable”; for it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable。 She had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired what may be called the beauty of goodness。 What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diapha