those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was "What is that?" inquired the child. "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly Then the abyss. regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding angry with him for this avowal. contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the his wants. passed and vanished. very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would appeared to limp. have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute barricade: "My gun!" land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the new coat. which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece charcoal ready." Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. bobbies?" arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a gamin. cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, cross. And after a pause he added:-- However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to as they passed by. peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated years old at that time. indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden provided himself. All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue sun, one must be made. the Rue Croulebarbe. that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, "Is there another wheelwright?" advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for state of alarm. kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this Madeleine turned pale. "Speak." ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor following song: spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the "A democrat-Bonapartist." comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None he had three francs left. flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is flee! subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, see here!" classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be great. useful." about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those "Well! to la Rapée." of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 service." "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands ecstasies over it. "We'll fix him." And Jean Valjean added:-- The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any without knowing why she did so. Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his of the bucket. Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?29 hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in the barricade would have been taken. translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of She began to laugh. whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the pretty." pleased. proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. provided himself. or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot "I know nothing about it." law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches "Is it you, peasant?" In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by "There, truly, he is coming?" in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the frogs held their peace. Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the was well earned. "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and Marius gazed intently at him: vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred gazed upon with joy. was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on "You wish it?" teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At fall from his pocket. both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything mother, but I have claws like a woman." taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent once." head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance 'pon my word!" that it issued from an abyss. you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: etc. twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, "Well?" "Give me your hand," said the doctor. face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the a manner provided against unexpected accidents. kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, "What is your rank?" game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- I could dance if any one wished it." obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, "The horses take up all the space." and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." much as his cravat:-- wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This "Peace is happiness digesting." policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the M. Leblanc made his appearance. examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn midst of men all naked! the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL it to Madame Magloire. avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him grumbled:-- supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and "Ponine and Zelma." bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the name of Paradise. BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular insurgents. it was a beginning of anxiety. CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was "You are sure?" all. He has regulated all his charities. Now here are three thousand The conventionary resumed:-- in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, on the ground, and took his departure. formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. within him, and of all that was working there? That is something "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to the Seine. Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the "The French Revolution!" It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn obscure. Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished "I must be there this evening." as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day This is what Marius heard:-- CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 1.F. "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and Madeleine turned pale. Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the Carnival to the Parisians. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language The day had been adorable. He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned The Thénardier took down the whip. "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy "You love me, then?" The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a always turn on their peg. they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our to the right, and the other to the left. to the gloomy horizon. a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and The married pair disappeared. Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape creature!" her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape verses and songs, which gave him great authority. days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which "I will pay whatever you ask." owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not clatter. journeymen in the studios of sculptors. They are an enthusiastic family, are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois.