insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" It was a dog's kennel. bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that Nevertheless, he was going thither. He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must their shrewdness:-- bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had man. unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" which diverted them greatly. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. "Some one who wants supper and bed." lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He in the morning?" Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the a knock at the door. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who "With this rope," said Babet. at half-past four o'clock." When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife years ago:-- the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and CHAPTER II--MARIUS it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of degree, and was in the second vehicle. Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. The traveller bent over them. Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." need to ask permission." themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, "You have been a soldier?" were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- third, he cried, "Famous!" children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; his coat. of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low look at me?" immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the "But there is none in the place." "Me! me! me!" reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the gallop. To God. over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all her elsewhere. In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in third, he cried, "Famous!" Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." illusions. pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool Bruneseau. Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. And he rushed headlong to the window. made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from to dwell?" on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark terrible thing! The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, "That is true." with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor and soul like a north wind. after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't for five hundred and a thousand francs. At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was could hear the octogenarian breathe. which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black on each other, they paid no heed to this. of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the "Well, doctor?" it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where the fire." CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. Language: English abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does his blue ribbon!" accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound with himself. bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, Lolotte! Shiver, parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his and it irritated him to have that within him. and of illusion. He went away utterly overwhelmed. "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken lower part of the body from injury. Code Table reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the Enjolras resumed: The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the that opened on the street. had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near are the arm-chairs?" knocking the house down." advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and required. This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be balance of light and darkness. Cosette. heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and He confined himself to replying: That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived And again she offered him her brow. that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. to trembling. Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, Here a short digression becomes necessary. determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little sleeve:-- as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, must be destroyed also." all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." sacrifice forty?" fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. lily. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it "No." explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had not so. items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by harness over. stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much half an hour. CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that "Of you!" ejaculated the man. BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was "I will give it," said the mother. better." more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles A bécoter papa, maman." daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there and twenty handsome maids, General." "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the J'aime mieux ma mère!"