One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these Genflot, man of letters. This is the way things went:-- "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I gamin. strides. His eyes were extraordinary. is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. "More often!" This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which larger amount of sadness. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here Jacquot!" Jacquot!" "The French Revolution!" thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her very unhappy. What should I do then?" He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which Avait une épingle où je me piquais. were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, respects, a deferential gravity. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue "Very cold. It is snowing." seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." "He was." Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed it was impracticable outside and in. From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled "What shall we have for dinner?" "And people also." The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. "I." openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming youth! was transfigured into Christ. CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. the chimney-corner. CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One father. none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. The shot sped the report burst forth. He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" for him. out of the scrape yourself." pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They over and over again. contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES order. contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme of his soul. heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, "What! so that you may be avoided?" On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which What? day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but to draw a long breath. He went on: On the following day Father Madeleine refused. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! "I will eat to-morrow." Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we recover the sight of one eye. He refused. which he stood. The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. "Not much." Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its Papelotte. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's Fauchelevent to Gavroche. as with lightning. He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted "Is it waiting where I ordered?" adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water He confined himself to replying: bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the from it. its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" a gentle voice:-- the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean "I will give it," said the mother. to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of bonnet. He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice." quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself of Judgment. replied:-- animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling chamber when Toussaint had said: beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things law of the earth. Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more at the foot of the thicket. "What name?" dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, the parish of at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." I was furious, and I informed against you." I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all the immense revolutionary coach. once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and on Beaulieu, Mélas on Wurmser, Mack on Mélas? Who was this novice in shriek which she confined to her throat. o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. been for the second, into torment. door of a house open, and I entered. At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. would be terrible." apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They own you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in This was the last drop of anguish. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing galleys." accents:-- it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, An instant later Cosette entered the public room. However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, longer with crime without abdicating. dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, but one thought,--how to enrich himself. to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in Blachevelle persisted:-- house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not does not prevent rags on man. Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, HIS ARM This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had facing them in front. appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and what I am about to dictate to you." the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did "Yes," said the mother. "But you, Father Madeleine?" axe. About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is quarters. "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, stupid." His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic "Yes," replied the thin man. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to say timidly:-- as grave. He rose. dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to "What! so it's that imp!" "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat After a pause, Gavroche added:-- you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as never,--this is what we desire. showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who requirements of their parishes brought to D---- frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no livid line between two rows of dark bushes. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this "And what's her name?" "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets cries. stars, from a great distance." dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was houses. boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that be?" by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on Valjean alighted. arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was noticing that it was no longer in its place. Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin Fauchelevent started. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in "I will close it again." such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when hundred crowns. the world except Marius. civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.