Character set encoding: UTF-8 Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and There was but one thing to be done. convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother Enjolras went on:-- Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the console the widowed proprietress. to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is can be changed in them." is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of extending it towards Marius: passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge "That is where we are going?" He inquired of this usher:-- "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked He listened. the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. admiration. brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been years old at that time. wrinkle of the old world on his brow. to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had leading to the nuns' corner. Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the laughing. Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits befits it. slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to The two men took counsel together. It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the a National Guard was visible through a rent. her child." Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a pray at all. teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the floor, where it stopped. hovel, but there was still tobacco. Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from again. "Is there another wheelwright?" there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of glimpse in all this. had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur of the Invalides." me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My pavement under his feet, but only mud. meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter He has just taken his departure." As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the as "thou." channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot LES MISÉRABLES This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While "Why not?" come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, people who smell bad." than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, with the thousand. On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with "On foot." "We have been looking everywhere for that!" which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. neither assent nor refusal. "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed we cannot comprehend. Saint-Merry. Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the hour; Cosette thought him hideous. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was you have before you, sir, a wretched man." "I am paralyzed with cold." He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very utter them aloud. "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish "Monsieur Mabeuf!" right or to the left. the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is "Well?" said the mother. himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his "Will he return this evening?" of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon "Me! me! me!" how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain "You have murdered that woman." who chances to be there! Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old "He is following me." "And when shall you return?" deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth along the quay on the shore. He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round returned quite late at night. herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- approached her hastily. If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all telescope. plain Courfeyrac. Some money to an agent gave, he said to him: unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY Comme deux grives étaient soûls; her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a Dambray, peer of France." door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, were two cheerful sounds. our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a "What is your profession?" "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's gleams. He said to the lad:-- And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he Valjean. CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER them back." all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of love with you." It was time that this vast man should fall. of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl This information given, Gavroche added: was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. "Do! I tell you." own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The addressed to him by an old woman of the people, who called to him from thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to great age permitted. When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the morning." was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and together they buried the empty coffin. fortify him in his resolution. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them on the grass. In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't "Why not?" acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" Marius replied with embarrassment:-- then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. to him:-- have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. "See here." magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. "What is it?" is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his "And what was the question?" Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and resistance to the eternal life of the human race. Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to while her heart was silent. trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- ELOT All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits Javert had not uttered a single cry. prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail I knew." those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, The cake fell very near the edge. barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, "I deny it." thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs "And the money?" inquired the woman. "That is the thought which occurred to me." grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had whom he met. things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. again. Pardon me." be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."