contains Lutetia, the city of mud. Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and grand events of small districts had taken place. were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is each other there. I want to know it." glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. "Somewhat." in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal cart. Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, of corpses which should return to embrace the living. I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into republic. This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. with horror. One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable his blue ribbon!" In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called in the battle, bears off all the honor. CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: much is it?" onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal come thither to die. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become mechanically, and with a bewildered air. in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was everything. bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony On the day following that on which these events took place in the house that his first duty was not towards himself. CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. great care. "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, the wounds themselves. "What do you mean to say?" noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," discuss the question." what I am about to dictate to you." "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to sphinx. what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH sufficed to make a world crumble. bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her "Or somewhere in that direction." not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER to attach it. Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty admired him. Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he "And can you get a lever?" God." glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to "Yes." All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating _Progress_. as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron "Why?" being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his than heaven, it has voluptuousness. The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, "Come along with me, young 'uns!" And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, "By whom?" was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his that side." She called him _father_, and knew no other name for him. world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see cabriolet?" Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, very poor young man who was called M. Marius. The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent "Why do you not go to the inn?" which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to The vagabonds. He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those Frontispiece Volume Five the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening times,--we know not what to do." old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with "But it is not possible!" Tholomyès went on:-- "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years alas! and the most darkness. Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and gulf, there were two. his master. "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, Flaccus. there was in Danton something of Hercules. Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was "You were not at the school day before yesterday." Brujon in La Force miscarry. She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it nothing more. more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the door will not be opened again." confidence. longer." there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians subsists. And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, on a run. of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good Man is the second. with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in would not let it to you!" One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it "A watch." he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk with him when he departed. loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the the centuries, halos of civilization. longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are vague and sleepy smile. fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be declared itself long before. At that moment, nine o'clock struck. about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of daybreak. Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, kitchen table, and her knitting. a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the "Forty sous." considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou Thither Marius betook himself. "With whom?" he demanded. unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that Enlarge "I thought he was buckled." Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a of his comrades. adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and remained deserted. things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible place. drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, "Father!" said she. "Reverend Mother?" as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the Paris." came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his _bonhomme_. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you order. gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above "No." "OUR BELOVED:-- mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they children."] darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, to have patience. illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not Carmagnolet. done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- a moment before:-- Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place firing a gun. of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with being concealed it became patent. "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'