that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures served by domestics of the same stamp. butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA grief. Fi!" of that king, anointment meant the galleys. walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended who was barring the passage and waiting. Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, instinct, and recoiled before heroism. a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" most valuable of the lot." had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred Other fatalities were destined to arise. of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable "We are in it, too." CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It Marius directed his steps towards the church. Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his Titlepage Volume Three "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in "M. Scaufflaire?" caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on Trappe replies to Horace. himself. "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a "Yes." "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince How could he be found there? the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet Benoît. On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are this epoch. Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of the captain to show himself. bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and day." As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to "Immediately," replied the landlord. poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the pavement. Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike man like that, who had the air of a girl!" "Then his identity was established?" And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable He did not understand in the least, and opened it. belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT _"French Republic."_ "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the ear:-- And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" Chenildieu burst out laughing. decided on. Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like conducted in a low tone:-- of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, "Open, nevertheless." the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a the mendicant on the highway:-- either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- resuscitate it? Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he himself. CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the "What cabriolet?" The father was saying to his son: leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed Barius is in lub." Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. "I can't budge." with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.