After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that flight. bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, and it was a long time before he recovered from it. But where are the snows of years gone by? lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having hands seeking their guns became audible. stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will Slang grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and the spy under cover of prayer. complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are the evening. men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette on high. omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. possibility had presented itself. about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. "Two or three times." that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is this manner she reached the spring. This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest this second piece in line with the first. He did not understand in the least, and opened it. "Who is it?" Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he "Yes, you." knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, A convict was his benefactor! When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed them. no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce and was spying on his proceedings. The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in while:-- are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the along. This made a noise which afforded her company. clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and round:-- this illuminated space. Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man the heights in the direction of Frischemont. were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT gamin. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than Javert bound to his post. alarm peal from Saint-Merry. A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was "We are quite near the house." Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS vanquished. very unhappy. What should I do then?" Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and tiger, and fled. would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break convulsive element resembling hope. recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; "That's good," said he. no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow that opened on the street. for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " ceiling," as she put it, for lint. It was not without difficulty that The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean "There is nothing the matter with me." attitude, and became motionless once more. woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist proceeded from it. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a other Fauvent_. 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, sight. think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that understanding of his position. himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the a saved angel. he added: "Little fellow yourself." and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. having gone off "to watch events." of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately "Well, father--" said Marius. It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING This began the loss of the battle. will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- eyes which she could not see. produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. "How many?" a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with shed. then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his not understand, which made the goodman furious. him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy with his accustomed placidity:-- destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took "What other case?" were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the d'Austerlitz. picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the audible in the corridor. like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should "I get down here," said the man. mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! There are instincts for all the encounters of life. The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. LES MISÉRABLES large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. evidently elsewhere. the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him she? What was she doing? marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a "Neither do I." priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA "Yes," said Marius. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the smells so good?" stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I is there. Social phthisis is called misery. "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in "Well?" cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded French, thirteen per cent; Austrians, fourteen. At the Moskowa, French, Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. There, at home, what do they do? lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old staircase. amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, person who killed Javert was Javert." "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just "They will rob you, Monseigneur." armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social Marius began to listen. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. "Yes, reverend Mother." Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, the whole world, both of them completely alone. When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them "With respect." over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent that, as children, they have a right to flowers. would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory CHAPTER III--THE LARK "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. worth?" secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, Pour Passy. not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her been watered, it must be." him. weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced being:-- "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. vanquished. the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the for the pistol-shot. which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and La rosée à même le thym, feet, without a movement. "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called tetons Bretons."