雨果 悲惨世界 英文版1

CHAPTER I　　M. MYRIEL　　In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D since 1806.　　Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese.　　True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and