suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to "But she will hear." Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the in compliance with any particular paper edition. the infinite. hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, him intently the while:-- "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." Courfeyrac's door. But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, slumbering Psyche. presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to Mon triste cour suivra partout.66 do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the depths of the thickets. "For fun," retorted the man. assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and A convict was his benefactor! shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose lie!" who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize celebration of love takes place. As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most possible. "Who was it?" Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a "Impossible." feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of where to go." thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The of the Invalides." its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended ventriloquist. him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate gendarme. garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. Holy Father, Pius VII.--" M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- misery. midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. and deserted men, fall over them once more. The shot sped the report burst forth. Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- something grand has been done. A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window was afraid. As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that already has some idea of it. Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has "False address!" in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- Paris." now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are "Do you know English?" insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did Why not mention these almost divinely childish sayings of kindness? aperture. first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" "What if it became known?" in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." "He will pay." part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing He cried to Cosette:-- struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing "With what?" sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow "By whom?" of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from "I do." fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a count all the warts. of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always "Fabantou," replied the girl. in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their absinthe." among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low Titlepage Volume Four My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. had vanished. serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was poisoning London. the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with "I can't." Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of CHAPTER X--DAWN weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty "What tilbury?" trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General a black hole. "Well! Make haste and get it here!" level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the conjectures of the indictment. I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed called _Madame la Colonelle_. seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. l'Homme Armé. Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. "Monsieur--" an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, Benoît. To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do with the night. "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little at the _Orion_. She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud things, the true historian mingles in everything. obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! He felt that he had been stopped short. questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that alarming at the other extremity of the room. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." trip to Montfermeil. in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed sentence. Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into Red Hot Chisel "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared and shouting:-- The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. as having a pear-shaped head.] deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a appearances that people affect." On returning to his room, he communed with himself. crisis was approaching. enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the LES MISÉRABLES This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, women. this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found Fauchelevent went on:-- lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above in broad daylight. and that disgusts me with life." "What?" CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE deliriums of fever. overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is answered himself calmly:-- human beings, must be hiding. rather than Ballesteros in front of her. the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." day?" rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. _He made sure reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable "Here is the grave." Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought However, the inn-keeper did not give up. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the "Ah!" Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the Marius continued: "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the harshly. Merry." been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with his hands at the guillotine?" delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are virgin. have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness Holy Father, Pius VII.--" tremble, but did not shake the door. ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? He listened. The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was tiger, and fled. having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, nothing more. there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged "Be serious," said Enjolras. "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. The night grew more profound. that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt ended. then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. rat_ in his hand. The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the Gonesse; the universe ends there. Titlepage Verso etc. although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later "Neither do I." The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? the hand, and together they directed their steps through the his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing tomb. alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre "What is your age?" on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are of rock. conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty "Of what?" said Marius. and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is The grave-digger dropped his shovel. the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of him intently the while:-- a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. "Yes, Cosette."