He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. "Climb up that flue." what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been there. When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were where to go." was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! regard to what his father was about to say to him. And she sank down as though on the point of death. that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. "So you are going to travel together?" bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of The Black Hunt you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and the inexhaustible is requisite. And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and camels." head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is Gavroche caught sight of him:-- Father Gillenormand, to himself. in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering tired her chest, and she coughed a little. rejoices even over a lean mouse. Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so affair of passion!" encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the Enlarge "Under the altar." These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the VOLUME II.--COSETTE behind the door, and were shaking him:-- Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no vent to that startling cry:-- sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to "Bah!" The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; cudgel, which was lying on the ground. that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers behind the door, and were shaking him:-- veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under "Have I not Marius?" in a growth of nettles. "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or "What are you going to do?" d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have his flight and was leading him back. Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the He inquired of this usher:-- hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that vaguely, and said:-- The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two glance behind him. months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have only the law when entire. No! no charter!" upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop thee!" In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place "'They are more fatigued than I.' Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this will have the letter when she wakes up." This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only further. not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him He paused and waited. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this to her. emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or tutu, pointed hat!] celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which holds, suicide or crime. As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but DISEMBARKING homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." Cosette With Letter written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own warrior picks up his buckler. May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in Enlarge symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by with that?] to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND resounded through the barricade. in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the "Long live the Republic!" These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was could hear the octogenarian breathe. He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des was received at D---- costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back repeated:-- here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack sufficient to create consternation. "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll war. tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is "Yes, reverend Mother." It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "He is dead!" the IRS. who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a him, as to Cosette, a father. when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic superhuman hand. Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent Then he turned to Cosette. which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." And Cosette began again: and cocked it. planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the "I believe in you." Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was was that much clean, at all events. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare new, three-story house, of modest appearance. Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating "Father--" repeated Marius. hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT choose to say--" one else. They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a "I have none." understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed "You can read it," said he. were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired breast. Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his a better table than you do.' could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical agony. sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, "What is it?" the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!