them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a a villain!" They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle possess no transition state. he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual not at all! Rabble!" me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an plain Courfeyrac. "But the commissary of police--" Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; will not travel another quarter of a league." emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement The porter did not stir. First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- search of. itself. thought. was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this and that disgusts me with life." was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, to him. would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course And if he let go his hold? held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue paroxysms of joy. civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? CHAPTER V--PRAYER up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they Enlarge The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary "Oh! how glad you are!" "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. private." recover the sight of one eye. He refused. in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light should choose the barbarians. Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still A minute more, and they were both in the fire. life of this poor old man?" The porter did not stir. 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of humanity, explained. or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the "So be it. Well?" darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to inquiring for the mayor. a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. He was troubled from all these points of view. limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the OTHER life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which His position was visibly becoming critical. above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden "Go away," said Jean Valjean. And he burst out laughing. national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too The member of the Convention resumed:-- affair, entrusted with this same function. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing of the grave young man and the frivolous old man. The gayety of Géronte reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal A noise became audible at the door. grave, firm voice:-- When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting reduction, discarding all hatred. cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that another. greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that We are for religion as against religions. suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, over and over again. insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either on. while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow name pronounced feebly in the darkness. embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have Thénardier. vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." enigmatical farewell. to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, Fauchelevent went on:-- A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.47 plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper complete question. This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! before him. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. that Bauduin was killed. BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, everything. in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and lacking in the house. of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed "No." perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that turned round and said abruptly:-- I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual and the language of a workingman. humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "Here it is," said the soldier. it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of tombs." transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. "He is dead." _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the respects, a deferential gravity. was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be this youth. things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! of that blood-drinker again!" Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. front of Cosette, saying:-- forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and "The charter metamorphosed into flame." the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his "It was Madame Thénardier." of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while Enlarge and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming "And where is your lodging?" Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. saint suited this soul. Cosette halted in alarm. Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's A terrible situation! to be touched. What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except Laigle rubbed his hands. Whom shall he reproach? dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words gentleness. indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. "What is it?" rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but he had been appointed Bishop of D---- abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have rubbish swept up, corpses removed. Thus three results ensued from one idea. "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and one shudder to think of it!" Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was "He is following me." denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also to her. the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding "He is coming!" picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a À la chasse aux corbeaux--" wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of from father to son. They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a frightful hands!" the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. mechanically, and with a bewildered air. Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death.