dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean confidence." "Then it attacks children?" He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the characterized this insurrection. "What is it?" salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that should have no dwelling place! "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a The door opened. Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, Enlarge had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped This trellis-work took the place of curtains. cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny service." question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip of the Constituent Assembly. threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the "Enter, sir," she said. a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the he will not come back!" mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball glance of the transfigured drunken man. officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, despair, and charms poets. of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O where nothing was discernible but blood. living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to On lui payait deux sous."63 Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for Let us finish with this man at once. as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty objectless promenades of the dreamer. Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine had been no time to make a palisade for it. supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of "Ah! Here it is." questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the for his grandfather. August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was Waterloo Museum. The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes destiny beside these two happy beings? The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Tenth; all is going well!" fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, table. do nothing more." the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened strangling is! At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which intelligent towns. nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. shaved head and a long beard. the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried of that king, anointment meant the galleys. allows itself to be flogged. And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light "Father--" repeated Marius. "There's going to be a row." account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once Then he returned to the barricade and said: "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of of her husband, turned to say:-- whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end Baptistine. this?" report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm what was the nature of this emotion? Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a obscure. door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying "You love me, then?" had recurred to him. of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. girl of seven years. All was black. tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it This shout put an end to the discourse. There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width "Yes, why?" economy in illumination. with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, "Caught!" passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with garden was separated from it by a hedge. branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. "That I may blow that man's brains out." These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, And, after a pause, he added: private." do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, the great cavern of evil. two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" "How long will it take to get it?" "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, playing tricks on each other. under his very nose. been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the Enjolras: "What fine marble!" The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered sufficient to create consternation. "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's her journey, and had reached M. sur M. in order not to have his feet in the water. what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" a lucky girl!" of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, The eldest girl grumbled:-- "I get down here," said the man. living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze astonishment. How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and here to this sketch. they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol from the convent." first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that than Rothschild." blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said He loosed her hands. in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. become of it." distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." not there."' doors opened. He turned round. end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the from the boulevard was turning into the road. At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 guest, and said to him,-- the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, "No." first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor France. _Quia nomina leo_." Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had sun, and that was the moon. still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the a hole there with his eyes. urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for ink and presented it to him. his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; "To Arras." the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished hand:-- threshold of the attic. while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to "God--or the Devil." CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT Javert had reached one of those extremities. inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Laigle rubbed his hands. if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? "You will see." man, in the barricade. for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various the dogs who complain." side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. to save M. Madeleine. continued:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space compliments. What is the meaning of this?" "What?" asked Marius. paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a "That it is very cold?" Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is white." spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin To peck at pa and ma." combat. He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever is almost indescribable. "What time is it?" The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was chimney-pots. atom. understands the actions of Providence. having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the "No." the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. short as it was. he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I "Throw it to those palmipeds." Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! stained brow. because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. rightly judging that every narrower way must needs terminate in a blind Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; "What is your name?" in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion By Victor Hugo collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time fulfilment. He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this contented himself with saying:-- They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. This is the problem which presented itself to him: same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the coat." staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to FOOTNOTES: a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by "Not particularly." Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night jack-screw. One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can at Beure, are tolerably large.' of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a appearance in battle array at the end of the street. despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there presence. fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which living, and of dying." torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall women were fond of begging. of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never with me." Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I does not dress in damask. He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- from the night. the prison."_ "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who