Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942 · Boston, Little, Brown, and Company · leaf 76
goldenlily hung over the marble mantel. Hugo issaid to have lived for one year on seven hundredfrancs, refusing aid from his father, who imposedon it the condition that his son should resignliterary work. The elder Hugo little dreamedof the impress his son was to make on the lifeand literature of… … PARIS, THE BEAUTIFUL on the front to distinguish it to the passers-by.Of Victor Hugos receptions, one visitor wrote: An elderly man opened the door and showedme into the reception-room. A genial wood firewas burning in the fireplace, and under theceiling and along the walls about fifty candleswere…
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