Crossword-Solution: MISERABLES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

What are the indescribable effects that romance, casting far beyond problems of character and conduct, seeks to realise? What is the nature of the great informing, underlying idea that animates a truly great romance--_The Bride of Lammermoor_, _Monte Cristo_, _Les Miserables_, _The Scarlet Letter_, _The Master of Ballantrae_? These questions can only be answered by de-forming the impression given by each of these works to present it in the chop-logic language of philosophy.

She posed against the canvas bosom of the porch chair with one foot under her, the other swinging free, showing a tempting thing in beaded slipper, silk stocking, and what the story writers call "slim ankle." On the second Saturday after her return her father came home for dinner at noon, found her deep in Volume Two of "Les Miserables." "Whew! This is a scorcher!" he exclaimed, and dropped down on a wicker chair next to Ivy.

The passage occurs at the end of the sixteenth chapter in the second part of “Les Miserables” (Cosette), and runs as follows: Le champ de Waterloo aujourd'hui a le calme qui appartient a la terre, support impassible de l'homme, et il resemble a toutes les plaines.

Let no man say, “Let them go to the devil!”—’tis a cruel journey to send a few miserables, and they have had sufferings enow without it: I always think it better to take a few sous out in my hand; and I would counsel every gentle traveller to do so likewise: he need not be so exact in setting down his motives for giving them;—They will be registered elsewhere.

Except in London--and I have forgotten what London was like--I had never seen so many white people together, and never such a collection of miserables.