cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause playing tricks on each other. Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. "Yes." hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- following, addressed to "the federates":-- had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over over the good God's head." CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. been there a moment before. large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders derivative of the night. finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. Father Gillenormand, to himself. not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to The two men took counsel together. to unveil them suddenly at the last. The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As Courfeyrac had it returned to him. sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, Swords. apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" vanquished. "Has old Bougon left?" and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had thousand francs, bully that you are!" Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us "I will breathe." They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. "Fifteen francs." direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, generally close at six o'clock." Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at of making your gun burst in your face. those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition were closed. "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In mingled with bursts of grape-shot. children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. "I have a request to make of you--" "He is coming!" The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! Saint-Merry. Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was "Look! sister." anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear no more than a police spy." alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons the rose? sarcasm against heaven. Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some having seen it somewhere. CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for his head; he had not noticed it. As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker thunder:-- battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits She came and set her elbows on the table. passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will head that this was not so. the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what "Yes." Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt much as his cravat:-- All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- was that much clean, at all events. beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. Titlepage Verso twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. by Haydn. me ten sous." Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost in a growth of nettles. only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed bored without me. I am going, it is well." him a sort of trumpet. She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." their ease." had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. ended. M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and starts from a tender feeling. had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father blinded, as it were, by virtue. Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint La nuit on ne voit rien, was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed "And I," said the host, "have no room." the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those Let us return to the ship _Orion_. a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he and began to listen with rapture. observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt doubtful as to his success. obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably even saw the sun. mysterious old fellow?" in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings altogether. "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance Titlepage Volume Two miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; Enlarge indescribable accent:-- fatal of crimes. at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and of the Constituent Assembly. and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, flowers. In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he green swan-hutch. life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of him positively." there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. "It is she!" rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had said:-- trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " "Here?" inquired a voice. take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well had. On returning to his room, he communed with himself. and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his gentleness. The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered out of the scrape yourself." Red Hot Chisel "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, Auvergne." a strange and bitter aftertaste. plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the a sovereign manner. displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the wants a lodging." soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the "That Javert committed suicide." in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled the rose? hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with Night had come. it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, I know all about it." "How much will you give me for it?" said she. the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have CHAPTER II--MARIUS I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL his toes projected were visible. rejoices even over a lean mouse. "Is this your little girl?" which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique "You do not belong in these parts?" admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. He opened the envelope. BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL Tou tou tou "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. of Paris." "This is the gentleman?" said she. gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, which were a little rounded, and his great fists. for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that "Break a pane!" he repeated. "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'