half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage "Éponine." is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, with an air of reproach. thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that celebration of love takes place. I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak dwelling of the Bishop of D---- And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for an old hat and his purse. have been already mad." night. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged his forefinger gently with his thumb. vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of passer-by. possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, Favourite shrugged her shoulders. "Yes, and a hand stopping it." of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at "And when do you start?" know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and "Rest easy." sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could DISEMBARKING be she!" "I have found out." that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and INDIA And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is this. That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the "Yes, Cosette." he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she account, he owed it on his own. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian "Where's your house?" of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always They replied:-- It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular the Eternal Father. of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back The One who is in the shadows. glanced around the room in a sort of terror. him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses Frontispiece Volume One francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors "Adorable!" he exclaimed. bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de cemetery." detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for Providence?" "I deny it." wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push emerged. And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small your hand here!--Boldly!" thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS the stuff of his trousers. gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that Delorme Alley. the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, young and very small, with remarkable luck. near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at "Approve of everything." family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was his head down. earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the Marius shivered from head to foot. 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is another, murmuring and humming, and harassed the whole company; a fly on the soul like a clot of despair. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened M. Madeleine rose. elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool France. _Quia nomina leo_." clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." "The charter metamorphosed into flame." fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. neck. icy perspiration stood in beads. stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were "How long is the coffin?" alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him This gave him a different nose. of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had "No." "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron chamber. are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of Restoration. is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this He murmured: public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, doubtful as to his success. noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Mon Dieu! a man is not a monster because he was at Waterloo; a father "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part CHAPTER III--THE LARK the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She guards a secret like a child. point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, "I wish to surprise him." The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was "Wait." name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were rubbish swept up, corpses removed. the person of Father Gillenormand. "He was." only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. What does this signify? Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to conjectures of the indictment. "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at Four new travellers had arrived. hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap "A two again." over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the Jacquot!" Jacquot!" Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and cover his hands with kisses. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- and shouted:-- were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried Babet interrogated him:-- "Have you clothes?" These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. uttering the word _country_. the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three assistant. I limp." CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the S'en allait à la chasse, "Yes," replied Javert. deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except And he took off his shoes. The enraged democracy reproached it with this. radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This precisely the idea of which I was in search." in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The very hungry." of rock. Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other produced a gentle, monotonous noise. These things are charming when one that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT sublimity of prayer. was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!