name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way "The French Revolution!" and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first not count for something in his approach to perfection. "Do! I tell you." The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, "Bread and cheese," said the man. species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the urchin administered to it a fillip. one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw grumbled: gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. "And the money?" inquired the woman. into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small nicely with your young ones." rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became ambuscades of providence! nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from A man stood before him. persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a 56 (return) [ the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was not slept either. present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! "Who is there?" the voice demanded. stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the skull-cap." Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is completed the bar across the street. it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!