clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius "He is warning us," said Combeferre. separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. been treading on moss with bare feet. portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION see!" expansion. road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes I'm standing treat." "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES so. we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the youth! which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of and no one entered the house. group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The the real form of this frightful public adventure. It was not true; Cosette lied. And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at "Nothing." could not doubt. fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the He was decidedly terrified. funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her "Fifteen francs." finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, oneself, one is firmly held." all the windows of the ground floor. performed in the spring, was saying:-- leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one flowers. things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. characters, with a pencil:-- and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert household. tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to felt cold because of that open window. am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that astonished a man." the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, in a bad state, too." The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. of the patrol of the right bank. called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the through great rays of gilded wood. would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be well say six hundred thousand!" Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with "Pardi." And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. dinner hour." barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a "Elsewhere." agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why him by the tail."64 BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit _"Requiescat in pace." _ men, and smoke. shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the "Who?" demanded her father. Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. speed." things like that, which are not common sense!" everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes "I," said Madeleine. was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his "That cannot be, gentlemen." the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed different groups. A shout went up:-- masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN place of the Cathedral of Rheims. coldly:-- little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- "The coffin of the administration." man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid "Because I shall have to buy something, too." born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle "You know that signature?" resumed the man. awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times "Oh! oh!" when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the Marius' brow grew more and more severe: not understand, which made the goodman furious. his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. "You are a wheelwright?" he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: _you_ to Éponine. he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of Javert!" they were making sport of him. dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than old man did not seem to perceive the fact. enchained authority is condensed. CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES The Thénardier woman hastened to him. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The Marius found himself alone. said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had and pitiless shame. with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated balances of destiny! All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to "O! Sure!" moment when nudity becomes indecent. In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de And she stopped. so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he Nevertheless, he was going thither. murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, and I have lost my hat." felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. "Come in," said he. "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought They did not hear him. The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. brims, which were called _bolivars_. Gavroche replied:-- "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions smile. hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." tetons Bretons."61 and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness cross. wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred "Who?" demanded her father. menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees had come about in the simplest possible manner. Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. hiccoughs. clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor "And he is coming?" at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- distance. He read:-- Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades President:-- Pratiquez la vertu, "I will give you six francs a month." Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. "With whom?" he demanded. of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out His mind was now filling in this canvas. did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." The reader will recall them: Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good the number. The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. respectful:-- magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself "My fortune is made." At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are come, and I bet that it won't come all day. This is the inexactness along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history,