Then, raising his voice:--

"So it seems to me."

　　"And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the convalescents."

　　"That was what I said to myself."

　　"In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at times,--we know not what to do."

　　"That is the thought which occurred to me."

　　"What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director.

　　"One must resign one's self."

　　This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the ground-floor.

　　The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital.

　　"Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?"

　　"Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director.

　　The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking measures and calculations with his eyes.

　　"It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to himself.

　　Then, raising his voice:--

　　"Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. There is evidently a mistake here.

　　There are thirty-six of you, in five or six small rooms.

　　There are three of us here, and we have room for sixty.

　　There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have yours.

　　Give me back my house; you are at home here."

　　On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital.

　　M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the Revolution.

　　His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage.

　　M. Myriel received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen thousand francs.

　　On the very day when he took up his abode in the hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own hand:--

　　 NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.

"Twenty-six, Monseigneur."

Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her activity, and in the next, because of her asthma.

　　On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general and the prefect.

　　The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work.

BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN

CHAPTER II

　　M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME

　　The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital.

　　The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abbe of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in 1712.

　　This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, Abbe of Saint Honore de Lerins; Francois de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; Cesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandeve; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a table of white marble.

　　The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.

　　Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his house.

　　"Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick people have you at the present moment?"

　　"Twenty-six, Monseigneur."

　　"That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop.

　　"The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each other."

　　"That is what I observed."

　　"The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air can be changed in them."

M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior.

You’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly.

The staff quarters were two miles and a half from Salzeneck. Not having found him at home, Rostov took his horse and rode to the quarters of the staff. In the village, where the staff was quartered, there was a restaurant which the officers frequented. Rostov reached the restaurant and saw Telyanin’s horse at the entry.

In the second room the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of sausages and a bottle of wine.

“Ah, you have come here too, young man,” he said, smiling and lifting his eyebrows.

“Yes,” said Rostov, speaking as though the utterance of the word cost him great effort; and he sat down at the nearest table.

Both were silent; there were two Germans and a Russian officer in the room. Every one was mute, and the only sounds audible were the clatter of knives on the plates and the munching of the lieutenant. When Telyanin had finished his lunch, he took out of his pocket a double purse; with his little white fingers, that were curved at the tips, he parted the rings, took out some gold, and raising his eyebrows, gave the money to the attendant.

“Make haste, please,” he said.

The gold was new. Rostov got up and went to Telyanin.

“Let me look at the purse,” he said in a low voice, scarcely audible.

With shifting eyes, but eyebrows still raised, Telyanin gave him the purse.

“Yes, it’s a pretty purse … yes …” he said, and suddenly he turned white. “You can look at it, young man,” he added.

Rostov took the purse in his hand and looked both at it and at the money in it, and also at Telyanin. The lieutenant looked about him, as his way was, and seemed suddenly to have grown very good-humoured.

“If we go to Vienna, I suspect I shall leave it all there, but now there’s nowhere to spend our money in these wretched little places,” he said. “Come, give it me, young man; I’m going.”

Rostov did not speak.

“What are you going to do? have lunch too? They give you decent food,” Telyanin went on. “Give it me.” He put out his hand and took. hold of the purse. Rostov let go of it. Telyanin took the purse and began carelessly dropping it into the pocket of his riding trousers, while his eyebrows were carelessly lifted and his mouth stood a little open, as though he would say: “Yes, yes, I’m putting my purse in my pocket, and that’s a very simple matter, and no one has anything to do with it.” ed: Y m n �� �]� ; 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 diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin.

　　Her person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever drooping;-- a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth.

No one would have dared to mention them

all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.

　　In 1804, M. Myriel was the Cure of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner.

　　About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris.

　　Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch.

　　One day, when the Emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Cure, who was waiting in the anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed.

　　Napoleon, on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, turned round and said abruptly:--

　　"Who is this good man who is staring at me?"

　　"Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man.

　　Each of us can profit by it."

　　That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Cure, and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that he had been appointed Bishop of D----

　　What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as to the early portion 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 diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin.

　　Her person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever drooping;-- a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth.

M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution.

PREFACE

　　So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century-- the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light-- are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

　　HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.

 Victor Hugo

BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN

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 above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar.

　　It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk.

　　He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry.

　　The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed.

　　M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution.

　　There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered.

　　He had no children. What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel?

　　The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him?

　　Was he, in the midst of these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune?

　　No one could have told:

`Yes, I do.'

`Here's a man of business--a man of years--a man of experience--in a Bank,' said Stryver; `and having summed up three leading reasons for complete success, he says there's no reason at all! Says it with his head on!' Mr. Stryver remarked upon tile peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off.

`When I speak of success, I speak of success with the young lady; and when I speak of causes and reasons to make success probable, I speak of causes and reasons that will tell as such with the young lady. The young lady, my good sir,' said Mr. Lorry, mildly tapping the Stryver arm, `the young lady. The young lady goes before all.'

`Then you mean to tell me, Mr. Lorry,' said Stryver, squaring his elbows, `that it is your deliberate opinion that the young lady at present in question is a mincing Fool?'

`Not exactly so. I mean to tell you, Mr. Stryver,' said Mr. Lorry, reddening, `that I will hear no disrespectful word Of that young lady from any lips; and that if I knew any man--which I hope I do not--whose taste was so coarse, and whose temper was so overbearing, that he could not restrain himself from speaking disrespectfully of that young lady at this desk, not even Tellson's should prevent my giving him a piece of my mind.'

The necessity of being angry in a suppressed tone had put Mr. Stryver's blood-vessels into a dangerous state when it was his turn to be angry; Mr. Lorry's veins, methodical as their courses could usually be, were in no better state now it was his turn.

`That is what I mean to tell you, sir,' said Mr. Lorry. `Pray let there be no mistake about it.'

Mr. Stryver sucked tile end of a ruler for a little while and then stood hitting a tune out of his teeth with it, which' probably gave him the toothache. He broke the awkward silence by saying:

`This is something new to me, Mr. Lorry. You deliberately advise me not to go up to Soho and offer myself--myself, Stryver of the King's Bench bar?'

`Do you ask me for my advice, Mr. Stryver?'

`Very good. Then I give it, and you have repeated it correctly.'

Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and glanced at the angry Stryver.

`My meaning,' answered the man of business, `is, of course, friendly and appreciative, and that it does you the greatest credit, and--in short, my meaning is everything you could desire. But--really, you know, Mr. Stryver ---' Mr. Lorry paused, and shook his head at him in the oddest manner, as if he were compelled against his will to add, internally, `you know there really is so much too much of you!'

`Well!' said Stryver, slapping the desk with his contentious hand, opening his eyes wider, and taking a long breath, `if I understand you, Mr. Lorry, I'll be hanged!'

Mr. Lorry adjusted his little wig at both ears as a means towards that end, and bit the feather of a pen.

`D--n it all, sir!' said Stryver, staring at him, `am I not eligible?'

`Oh dear yes! Yes. Oh yes, you're eligible!' said Mr. Lorry. `If you say eligible, you are eligible.'

`Am I not prosperous?' asked Stryver.

`Oh! if you come to prosperous, you are prosperous,' said Mr. Lorry.

`And advancing?'

`If you come to advancing, you know,' said Mr. Lorry, delighted to be able to make another admission, `nobody can doubt that.'

`Then what on earth is your meaning, Mr. Lorry?' demanded Stryver, perceptibly crestfallen.

`Well! I Were you going there now?' asked Mr. Lorry. `Straight!' said Stryver, with a plump of his fist on the desk. `Then I think I wouldn't, if I was you.'

`Why?' said Stryver. `Now, I'll put you in a corner,' forensically shaking a forefinger at him. `You are a man of business and bound to have a reason. State your reason.

Why wouldn't you go?'

`Because,' said Mr. Lorry, `I wouldn't go on such an object without having some cause to believe that I should succeed.'

`D--n ME!' cried Stryver, `but this beats everything.'

Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and glanced at the angry Stryver.

Can I do anything for you, Mr. Stryver?

Towards Soho, therefore, Mr. Steer shouldered his way from the Temple, while the bloom of the Long Vacation's infancy was still upon it. Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho while he was yet on Saint Dunstan's side of Temple Bar, bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen how safe and strong he was.

His way taking him past Tellson's, and he both banking at Tellson's and knowing Mr. Lorry as the intimate friend of the Manettes, it entered Mr. Stryver's mind to enter the bank, and reveal to Mr. Lorry the brightness of the Soho horizon. So, he pushed open the door with the weak rattle in its throat, stumbled down the two steps, got past the two ancient cashiers, and shouldered himself into the musty back closet where Mr. Lorry sat at great books ruled for figures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and everything under the clouds were a sum.

`Halloa!' said Mr. Stryver. `How do you do? I hope you are well!'

It was Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space. He was so much too big for Tellson's, that old clerks in distant corners looked up with looks of remonstrance, as though he squeezed them against the wall. The House itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the Stryver head had been butted into its responsible waistcoat.

The discreet Mr. Lorry said, in a sample tone of the voice he would recommend under the circumstances, `How do you do, Mr. Stryver? How do you do, sir?' and shook hands. There was a peculiarity in his manner of shaking hands, always to be seen in any clerk at Tellson's who shook hands with a customer when the House pervaded the air. He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co.

`Can I do anything for you, Mr. Stryver?' asked Mr. Lorry, in his business character.

`Why, no, thank you; this is a private visit to yourself, Mr. Lorry; I have come for a private word.'

`Oh indeed!' said Mr. Lorry, bending down his ear, while his eye strayed to the House afar off.

`I am going,' said Mr. Stryver, leaning his arms confidentially on the desk: whereupon, although it was a large double one, there appeared to be not half desk enough for him: `I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette, Mr. Lorry.'

Oh dear me!' cried Mr. Lorry, rubbing his chin, and looking at his visitor dubiously.

`Oh dear me, sir?' repeated Stryver, drawing back.

`Oh dear you, sir? What may your meaning be, Mr. Lorry?'

The Fellow of Delicacy

You approve?'

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, `Why should I not approve?' `Well!' said his friend Stryver, `you take it more easily than I fancied you would, and are less mercenary on my behalf than I thought you would be; though, to be sure, you know well enough by this time that your ancient chum is a man of a pretty strong will. Yes, Sydney, I have had enough of this style of life, with no other as a change iron' it; I feel that it is a pleasant thing for a man to have a home when he feels inclined to go to it (when he doesn't, he can stay away), and I feel that Miss Manette will tell well in any station, and will always do me credit. So I have made up my mind. And now, Sydney, old boy, I want to say a word to you about your prospects. You are in a bad way, you know; you really are in a bad way. You don't know the value of money, you live hard, you'll knock up one of these days, and be ill and poor; you really ought to think about a nurse.

The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive.

`Now, let me recommend you,' pursued Stryver, `to look it in the face. I have looked it in the face, in my different way; look it in the face, you, in your different way. Marry. Provide somebody to take care of you. Never mind your having no enjoyment of women's society, nor understanding of it, nor tact for it. Find out somebody. Find out some respectable woman with a little property--somebody in the landlady way, or lodging-letting way--and marry her, against a rainy day. That's the kind of thing for you. Now think of it, Sydney.'

`I'll think of it,' said Sydney.

CHAPTER XII

MR. STRYVER having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as well to get all the preliminaries done with, and they could then arrange at their leisure whether he should give her his hand a week or two before Michaelmas Term, or in the little Christmas vacation between it and Hilary.

As to the strength of his case, he had not a doubt about it, but clearly saw his way to' the verdict. Argued with the jury on substantial worldly grounds--the only grounds ever worth taking into account--it was a plain case, and had not a weak spot in it. He called himself for the plaintiff, there was no getting over his evidence, the counsel for the defendant threw up his brief, and the jury did not even turn to consider. After trying it, Stryver, C. J., was satisfied that no plainer case could be.

Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.

`Certainly; and in these chambers.'

`You shall not get off in that Way,' rejoined Stryver, shouldering the rejoinder at him; `no, Sydney, it's my duty to tell you--and I tell you to your face to do you good--that you are a devilish ill-conditioned fellow in that sort of society. You are a disagreeable fellow.'

Sydney drank a bumper of the punch he had made, and laughed.

`Look at me!' said Stryver, squaring himself: `I have less need to make myself agreeable than you have, being more independent in circumstances. Why do I do it?'

`I never saw you do it yet,' muttered Carton.

`I do it because it's politic; I do it on principle. And look at me! I get on.'

`You don't get on with your account of your matrimonial intentions,' answered Carton, with a careless air; `I wish you would keep to that. As to me--will you never understand that I am incorrigible?'

He asked the question with some appearance of scorn.

`You have no business to be incorrigible,' was his friend's answer, delivered in no very soothing tone.

`I have no business to be, at all, that I know of,' said Sydney Carton. `Who is the lady?'

`Now, don't let my announcement of the name make you uncomfortable, Sydney,' said Mr. Stryver, preparing him with ostentatious friendliness for the disclosure he was about to make, `because I know you don't mean half you say; and if you meant it all, it would be of no importance. I make this little preface, because,you once mentioned the young lady to me in slighting terms.

`I did?'

`Certainly; and in these chambers.'

Sydney Carton looked at his punch and looked at his complacent friend; drank his punch and looked at his complacent friend.

`You made mention of the young lady as a golden-haired doll. The young lady is Miss Manette. If you had been a fellow of any sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling in that kind of way, Sydney, I might have been a little resentful of your employing such a designation; but you are not. You want that sense altogether; therefore I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures: or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.'

Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.

`Now you know all about it, Syd,' said Mr. Stryver. `I don't care about fortune: she is a charming creature, and I have made up my mind to please myself: on the whole, I think I can afford to please myself. She will have in me a man already pretty well off and a rapidly rising man, and a man of some distinction: it is a piece of good fortune for her, but she is worthy of good fortune. Are you astonished?'

Carton, still drinking the punch, rejoined, `Why should I be astonished?'

`Do I know her?'

`SYDNEY,' said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his jackal; `mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you.'

Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before that, and a good many nights in succession, making a grand clearance among Mr. Stryver's papers before the setting in of the long vacation. The clearance was effected at last; the Stryver arrears were handsomely fetched up; everything was got rid of until November should come with its fogs atmospheric and fogs legal, and bring grist to the mill again.

Sydney was none the livelier and none the soberer for so much application. It had taken a deal of extra wet-towelling to pull him through the night; a correspondingly extra quantity of wine had preceded the towelling; and he was in a very damaged condition, as he now pulled his turban off and threw it into the basin in which he had steeped it at intervals for the last six hours.

`Are you mixing that other bowl of punch?' said Stryver the portly, with his hands in his waistband, glancing round from the sofa where he lay on his back,

`I am.'

`Now, look here! I am going to tell you something that will rather surprise you, and that perhaps will make you think me not quite as shrewd as you usually do think me. I intend to marry.

`Do you?'

`Yes. And not for money. What do you say now?'

`I don't feel disposed to say much. Who is she?'

`Guess.'

`Do I know her?'

`Guess.'

`I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my, head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner.

`Well then, I'll tell you,' said Stryver, coming slowly into a sitting posture. `Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog.'

`And you,' returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, `are such a sensitive and poetical spirit.'

`Come!' rejoined Stryver, laughing boastfully, `though I don't prefer any claim to being the soul of Romance (for I hope I, know better), still I am a tenderer sort of fellow than you.

`You are a luckier, if you mean that.'

`I don't mean that. I mean I am a man of more--more---'

`Say gallantry, while you are about it,' suggested Carton.

`Well! I'll say gallantry. My meaning is that I am a man,' said Stryver, inflating himself at his friend as he made the punch, `who cares more to be agreeable, Who takes more pains to be agreeable, who knows better how to be agreeable, in a woman's society, than you do.'

`Go on,' said Sydney Carton.

`No; but before I go on,' said Stryver, shaking his head in his bullying way, `I'll have this out with you. You've been at Dr. Manette's house as much as I have, or more than I have. Why, I have been ashamed of your moroseness there! Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hang-dog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney!'

`It should be very beneficial to a man in your practice at the bar, to be ashamed of anything,' returned Sydney; `you ought to be much obliged to me.

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Point #3 Website Navigation.
Do not trick the visitor, do not confuse the visitor, do not attempt to hide the ad but do not ‘blast�?the ad at the same time. Create your navigation in such a way that your ads appear unobtrusive and yet viewable. It is advisable to put more then one ad but do not cramp your page with ads, it turns the visitor off.
Point #4 Key Word Density
Although Google doesn't release exact details as to how they determine the ads to serve on a given page. We do know that content (and words) of the page that matters. Before serving ads on a page, then, you might want to check its keyword density to see what words pops up most frequently.
Point #5 Maintain Content Readability
Advertisements should not distract from your content, or else your visitors will be driven away. Make Adsense a cohesive part of your site design, not something slapped in at the last minute or some hastily put up page.
Point #6 Ask Them!
Google knows best about their own programs. If you have any doubt or any question at all, feel free to mail them. “Please feel free to email us at adsense-tech@google.com if you have additional technical questions or concerns. For general program or account questions, please email adsense-support@google.com.�?br /> Point #7 Do Nots.
Do no click on your own ads neither should you ask others to click on your Google ads. Do not manually change or modify you ad code. Do not place Google ads on sites that include prohibited/questionable content (e.g.: adult sites, hate sites) Do not employ cloaking, hidden text or farm links. Do not create a site just because you think you found high paying keywords and throw content in just based on them just for the purpose of profiting from them. Paul O'Brien  

All What You Need To Know About Making An Entertainment That Will Be Worth Remembering_73123

Amusement is a feeling of fondness for yourself and others. Every human can be amused as well as entertain others. Amusement or entertainment is like a two-way traffic. If you are entertained, you must also entertain others in order to make it worthy of committing to memory.

There is a lot of entertainment everywhere, from others, from you and from nature. But why are we most of the times not amused by these things or fail to realize the amusement contained in them. We are unwilling or refuse to accept it by spreading it to others. We always want to be entertained, but we do not want to be a medium through which others can be uplifted through entertainment. We always seek entertainment rather a means to be entertained. If we only want to receive, yet fail to give, how do we think such amusement can have footprints in our life and the life of others? Take note that it is always better to give out than to receive.

Making entertainment a memorable event in your life involves one simple question. Ask yourself: do I really want to first, entertain others and secondly entertain myself, and do I want to make this event memorable? A genuine answer to this question will be the decisive point in your life. If your answer is in the negative, and then be given surety that you will never be forced to be entertained and you will never see the value of entertainment in anything you do. Desist from being a social eunuch. But when you accept the simple and only fact that you do want to get others highly entertained, not even minding if you get yourself entertained, you will realize many things in your life. Every instance of entertainment made by you became an unforgettable event, and an event worth remembering is a positive life-changing event. With these come other things in your life which you do not ask for. You will realize the presence of peace of mind, the storm of joy over and around you, and above all, the disappearance of stress from your mind. You will never see the positive impact of amusement in you life. You will only realize it.

Making entertainment have a lasting impact in your life and in the life of others is as simple as anything. You do not need to put up a spirited show or a long outpour of words. Sometimes, a friendly gesture such as personally singing a song to a sick person, telling a story to kids or simply make others laugh is enough.  

All Those Sulumits Retsambew Tlds_68694

So maybe nobody's really sure right now whether domain names with keywords really help your rank on Google. That still hasn't stopped participants in the sulumits retsambew SEO contest from buying just about every variant of domain name that has the keyword phrase in it.

A lot of the more common and more popular TLDs for keyword-friendly domain names have already been taken. For the keyword phrase alone, over half a dozen different TLDs have already been taken out; many more domain names with all sorts of combinations involving the keyword phrase have been registered. Of course, it's not like you'll hit a shortage of keyworded domain names. If you really want one, just use a bit of imagination and you should be able to come up with a new name.

But does that mean that it's automatically a good idea? Not necessarily. Even if the first few results pages have plenty of domain names that have the keyword phrase in them, it still doesn't say anything about the benefits of getting keyworded domain names. It could just be a coincidence that those people who got those keyword-containing names are also very persistent SEO implementers.

The contest, however, could provide everyone with an answer to that gray area. Heck, it could even give an answer to whether certain TLDs are prioritized over others for Google rankings. At this point, it's a game of Wait and See. While nobody's sure of much, though, that special keyworded domain name need not be an investment to make right now.  

All The Secrets To Paid Internet Surveys_74921

What are paid internet surveys? This is a question that so many people are wanting to know the answer to but they just can't get one. Well basically they are this - surveys that are created by market research companies that offer people money in return for filling one out. That's it! There's nothing else to it! So you're wondering why it is that you yourself have tried tirelessly to find some paid internet surveys, but you just haven't been able to? Well this article will discuss everything you need to know about finding the best paid surveys on the market so that you can start putting some 'easy-earned' into your back pocket straight away.

Finding A List Of Paid Internet Surveys

The first thing that you have to do before you can even think about taking part in paid internet surveys, is to build yourself a list of places that you can apply too. Basically if you haven't done this before than the process is this - go to a site that is offering paid internet surveys and make an application. That�s it, with shades of grey of course! So you want to build yourself a list of places to apply to before anything.

This of course may take some time and if you want to just skip this process than the best thing for you to do is to join a paid survey directory. These are sites that list most, if not every website online that offer paid surveys. They also list this from the most popular, to the least popular and have a short description about each site so you can make an informed decision as to what sites you should consider applying to.

Start Applying

Once you have a list of a few hundred places that offer paid internet surveys, it's time to start applying. Now there are a few things that you have to take into consideration when it comes to making an application. First of all, what is the paid survey you are applying to about? If you have nothing to do with the product they are surveying, then it's unlikely you are going to be picked for the survey and you'll just be wasting your time.

Second of all, don't lie about yourself. For some reason the people who tend to lie about themselves in their applications always get caught out. You want to build a relationship with these sites so that when they offer paid internet surveys in the future, you will be on their 'good list', for want of a better word.

If you take these factors into consideration and with a little determination, you'll be making money in no time. So get out there and start applying and watch the money come in each month.  

All The Latest Fashions Available On Your Computer_69949

If you enjoy going for a trip to the shopping complex of into the city centre to spend your savings on the latest must have shoes, coats, party ware or accessories you are most likely already shopping savvy when it comes to finding the best deals and bargains.

However it抯 a surprise that many of the most avid shopping fans have not tried the online shopping experience yet. While some feel they will have much less of a choice, they couldn抰 be further from the truth! Most of the shops on the high street have websites with mail order catalogues or the ability to at least reserve all your items for pick up so you can just pop in and grab it all in one go.

If anything, the internet has allowed for more products than ever to be available to the public. Small businesses that are starting out and can抰 afford a shop to operate from are able to offer their clothes, jewellery and accessories to you for bargain low cost prices, and clothes from over the pond and even further away are now available to those in the united Kingdom.

If you really want to stay ahead of the fashion trends and be the first to get your hands on that new gorgeous Gucci handbag, get yourself on the American shopping sites and order via the postal service!

If you抮e worried about browsing, there is no need to. Many of these sites have an intelligent piece of software installed that will analyse that you have previously bought or looked into, and based on what they look like it will suggest similar products. This way it takes the browsing out of looking at all the items you抮e actually attracted to!

So if you want to give your shopping skills a new angle, have a look on the internet and see what bargains you can grab hold of.  

Advanced Coaching Methods - Here's My System_68748

What if you discovered simple advanced coaching methods that will attract clients to your coaching program like bees to honey? Do you want to know what it takes to make massive income online starting today step-by-step in five easy to follow steps? The purpose of this article is to get you started making easy income in less time with a simple to create coaching program. Here are 5 simple steps to get you started with advanced coaching methods that will skyrocket your profits easily...

Step 1 - Build rapport before you get started.

Step 2 - Content emails is the key to building relationship.

Step 3 - Setup free quality reports in the long run.

Step 4 - Act on the feedback of your clients.

Step 5 - Question emails will boost up your credibility right through the roof.

The purpose of this article is to give you simple 5 step formula to strike rich online. Here are step-by-step details that you can apply quickly and easily...

Step 1 - Build rapport before you get started.

There are many simple ways that you can use to build a strong rapport with your list. Building trust, relationship and credibility in your niche will help you to gain attention and people will then surely choose your coaching program. Write quality content e-mails in your niche and make sure that you build your reputation online...

Step 2 - Content e-mails is the key to building relationship.

Writing powerful content e-mails will help you to achieve an expert status in your niche. People will notice your quality content and then they will feel that your coaching will provide them a more personalized one-on-one training; this will make sure that they will take up your coaching offer. Do you know that quality reports have a massive viral value and will help you to boost your trust and relationship?

Step 3 - Setup free quality reports in the long run.

Quality report have very high-powered viral marketing effect because it provides quality content along with your coaching program advertised in it. Write simple reports in your niche and spread them around with free distribution rights; this will spread your reports like wildfire and thus boost your website traffic. Make sure that you take your clients feedback and improve on your product on a regular basis...

Step 4 - Act on the feedback of your clients.

Make sure that you ask your clients to provide feedback on your coaching; this will give you lots of ideas as to how you can improve on it. This will also make sure that your clients respect you because you are considering their feedback and helping them to get a better experience out of your coaching. Writer simple question e-mails every month and this will boost your relationship right through the roof with your list...

Step 5 - Question emails will boost up your credibility right through the roof.

Every month send a simple question e-mail to your clients and ask them what is their most pressing question and what is the problem in their niche? When anyone replies back make sure you give them a personalized response to their question and this will get them to know your expertise in your niche.  

Advanced Uses For Myspace_75032

MySpace members can generate a website quickly through templates. These templates enable users to create a generic website in very little time. For those who are just interested in making new friends or keeping in touch with old friends, this may be all the member needs. However, those who want to offer more on their website or those who simply want to create a more detailed website may require some more advanced knowledge to achieve the desired effects.

Adding Background Music in MySpace

The majority of websites on the Internet do not have background music. This may lead many novice MySpace members to believe adding music to the background is a difficult process but it really isn抰. In fact MySpace makes it incredibly simple for members to add music to their profiles. The steps to add music to a MySpace profile are as follows:

* Log into your MySpace account
* While logged in visit this web address: http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music
* Listen to the music available and select a suitable song for your profile
* Click on the link that says 揂dd?below the song title
* The music is then automatically added to your profile

It is important to note that users can only add one song at a time to their profile. Clicking the 揂dd?link on a second song will result in the original song being replaced on the profile by the new song. Songs can be removed from a profile at any time by going to the 揈dit profile?section of your account and entering the 揚rofile songs?subcategory. Here you have the option to remove your chosen song.

Adding Videos to MySpace

Adding videos to MySpace is also not as difficult as it seems. Even those with no HTML skills can add videos produced by other members or even their own videos to their MySpace profile. The steps to add a video to your MySpace profile are as follows:

* Log into your MySpace Account
* From your MySpace homepage, click on the 揂dd/Change Videos?link
* You are then taken to another webpage where you can either search through a database of previously uploaded videos or upload your own video
* To search the database, click on the search videos button and browse through the available videos
* After watching a video you can add the video to your profile in a couple of ways. First you can click on the 揂dd to my profile?button or you can copy the source code provided and paste this code into the desired location on your profile.

Alternately you can add your own videos to your MySpace profile by first uploading them to MySpace and then adding them to your profile. When uploading a video care should be taken to ensure the video does not violate the terms of service.

Creating Interactive Features on MySpace

Creating interactive features on MySpace is a bit more involved. Members can create features which allow visitor interaction but these features require more extensive HTML knowledge. The best way to acquire the information necessary to design these types of features is to research the subject of HTML code in books or on the Internet. However, if you find a feature on another MySpace website you would like to include in your own profile you can contact the member and ask them how to add this feature.  

Advanced Seo Services_62911

If you really want to give your website a significant boost on search engine rankings then you will have to opt for advanced SEO services. In general these services are available after the preliminary optimization efforts have been conducted on your website.

One of the best SEO techniques is article marketing. This process involves writing and syndicating articles to a variety of different online article directories that have a high ranking on Google and other major search engines. However you can maximize the benefits that you have to reap from article marketing by getting your site map linked in the resource box of every article. This will automatically get the search engines to crawl deep within your website and consequently index more of your inner pages.

Another technique often used in advanced SEO services is the use of multilingual websites. It is important to understand the majority of Internet users consist of non-English speaking people. If you target these people in their own languages you will get to harness a broader spectrum of customers from different countries and cultures. Furthermore search engines in different languages will be able to index your page and hence your overall ranking will improve.

Also part of advanced SEO services is the use of long tail keyword phrases. Most people make the mistake of targeting general keywords that are relative to their website but extremely competitive. A better approach would be to target long tail keywords that consist of 3 to 4 words and have much less the competition but a greater chance of conversion.

Optimizing your website for local search is another important aspect that needs to be taken into consideration. This process is commonly known as geo-targeting. Following the recent algorithm update by Google the importance of geo-targeting has come to light and it shows that Google is favoring those websites that have a good local ranking.

Optimizing internal linking is also essential if you want to reap maximum benefits of search engine optimization. However this can only be done once the rest of your on-page optimization has been completed.  

Advanced Link Building Services For Google Caffeine_64588

Google caffeine is the new version of the current google search engine. It抯 deemed as being able to pull up more relevant results in less the time it takes the current google. At the time of writing, the search engine is still in its beta testing phase and people are getting great results from using it.

The introduction of this new version has had search engine optimization experts and advanced link building services scampering to their drawing boards to see if there is anything new, or if the algorithms have changed.

Fortunately, not much has changed other than websites with more quality links and lower PR are ranked higher in the SERPs than those with lower quality linking campaigns and higher PRs.

If you have a website, you may decide to look into this yourself. However, this is not the best approach as keeping up with the latest search engine trends is really difficult. To save yourself from the stress of consistently being on the cutting edge of search engine optimization and advanced link building methods, your best bet would be to hire any of the reputable advanced link building services available.

These advanced link building services will make sure that not only do you get the best possible link building campaign based on your budget, but also keep you informed on the latest methods, events and happening on the search engines.

It is important to note that the link building methods have not changed much as at the time of this writing. One way links and backlinks, the use of unique class IPs, link baiting and other advanced link building methods are still very powerful and relevant.

In fact websites that have taken the time to work on their linking structure will find that their rankings will not only increase in google caffeine, but also be sustained for as long as possible where the search engines are concerned.

Stop focusing your energy on keeping up with the latest search engine optimization trends. That by itself is a full time activity. Instead, let any of the advanced link building services do the job while you focus on building your business.  

Advanced Coaching Methods - Here's My System_68748

What if you discovered simple advanced coaching methods that will attract clients to your coaching program like bees to honey? Do you want to know what it takes to make massive income online starting today step-by-step in five easy to follow steps? The purpose of this article is to get you started making easy income in less time with a simple to create coaching program. Here are 5 simple steps to get you started with advanced coaching methods that will skyrocket your profits easily...

Step 1 - Build rapport before you get started.

Step 2 - Content emails is the key to building relationship.

Step 3 - Setup free quality reports in the long run.

Step 4 - Act on the feedback of your clients.

Step 5 - Question emails will boost up your credibility right through the roof.

The purpose of this article is to give you simple 5 step formula to strike rich online. Here are step-by-step details that you can apply quickly and easily...

Step 1 - Build rapport before you get started.

There are many simple ways that you can use to build a strong rapport with your list. Building trust, relationship and credibility in your niche will help you to gain attention and people will then surely choose your coaching program. Write quality content e-mails in your niche and make sure that you build your reputation online...

Step 2 - Content e-mails is the key to building relationship.

Writing powerful content e-mails will help you to achieve an expert status in your niche. People will notice your quality content and then they will feel that your coaching will provide them a more personalized one-on-one training; this will make sure that they will take up your coaching offer. Do you know that quality reports have a massive viral value and will help you to boost your trust and relationship?

Step 3 - Setup free quality reports in the long run.

Quality report have very high-powered viral marketing effect because it provides quality content along with your coaching program advertised in it. Write simple reports in your niche and spread them around with free distribution rights; this will spread your reports like wildfire and thus boost your website traffic. Make sure that you take your clients feedback and improve on your product on a regular basis...

Step 4 - Act on the feedback of your clients.

Make sure that you ask your clients to provide feedback on your coaching; this will give you lots of ideas as to how you can improve on it. This will also make sure that your clients respect you because you are considering their feedback and helping them to get a better experience out of your coaching. Writer simple question e-mails every month and this will boost your relationship right through the roof with your list...

Step 5 - Question emails will boost up your credibility right through the roof.

Every month send a simple question e-mail to your clients and ask them what is their most pressing question and what is the problem in their niche? When anyone replies back make sure you give them a personalized response to their question and this will get them to know your expertise in your niche.