책: Les Miserables

삼분의 일쯤 읽다 한동안 놓았다 다시 처음부터 읽기 시작했다. 책은 Jean Valjean을 다시 태어나게 한 Myriel 주교의 이야기로 시작한다.

After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,—the latter in search of the alms which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities.

from Les Misérables, Hugo, Victor

Nothing could induce him to add anything superfluous to his bare necessities...


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