After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much "Here's a fine farce!" make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected Babet took Thénardier aside. advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who "Well?" One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter To her only. She shuddered. by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was He replied in a low voice:-- sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my "We are in it, too." "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time something else. in compliance with any particular paper edition. infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, The night grew more profound. Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part "There's one thing you ought to do." crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. significant and bitter about it. bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. CHAPTER II--MADELEINE trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each "There is no one but me." surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any "I have my papers," he said calmly. asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, Favourite listened with profound attention. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he go out." face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a to hate the stranger. Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to cover his hands with kisses. The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this understands the actions of Providence. everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer yard than in close confinement. on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of "Do you want me to lend you some?" who abandon us!" "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and was obliged to fight to-day. of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart in lieu of the ---- above.} no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will "News!" below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. "Oh! how glad you are!" When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number Combeferre, who was standing beside Enjolras, scrutinized this young "The slab which closes the vault?" Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the "I have my papers," he said calmly. stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up spoke to him." To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were tell me one hundred and nine francs?" humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school turned squarely round. day." "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had id="linknoteref-44">44 When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by id="linknoteref-65">65 second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased "Speak." of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the must give air to the English army." second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says "Yes," said Marius. don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind no more than a police spy." which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something take Marius' place. "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- 1.E.9. "You are a student?" demanded Marius. cross. would be our salvation," he murmured. of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the "Where's your house?" her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how "Enter, sir," she said. through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back "Hey?" said Gavroche. to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. her. "How right I was not to believe in that story about the lancer!" said more venerable possible. porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the "Patience," replied Tholomyès. Cosette's side. It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called him:-- public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the blood. table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a "What?" finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of trousers! What energy!" and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself Marius stammered. So Fantine was watched. "Joker!" imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his CHAPTER III--THE LARK he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover emerged. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " "Where is the entrance?" Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she of Paris." of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, "Now, go in peace!" came." seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It "You have company this evening, no doubt." God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration the name of Azelma. changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar himself:-- Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the "Yes." understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, wicked man!" possibilities. hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. Pour Passy. presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" inexpressible hatred. He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is effort in speaking in this manner: CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them "That is just." "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one Rue de l'Homme Armé; he was so deeply absorbed that he mistook the door horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many could conceal after what they said. Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were was afraid. they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- that side of Paris. that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. "What is your age?" enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all Jean Valjean suspected nothing. One last word about Fantine. commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the just found it again. which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by the heart of man. blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed Then he added:-- simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, remember! You don't see who I am?" CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and to be absent for three days?" hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his one thing only, innocence. Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the FAMUEIL. Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.