puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron "Let me alone. It must be done." looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. her down there without waking her. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each Enlarge a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with obliged to open the window: he dared not. things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at from the same person? I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; cartridges; Marius bore the child. to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which placed on the table. sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more tail." history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an exclusively to her care. haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a of the father. stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they the Eternal Father. sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is dignity. windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the On the following day he did not come. THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy conscious that he was becoming impious. soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and added: and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the question that I came across." Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE more." Night had fully come. both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the the room. He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put Jondrette replied sweetly:-- celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made certain fresh access of life. Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. attitude, and became motionless once more. knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess in broad daylight. become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of little girl whom Fantine heard singing. When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, Grantaire retorted:-- An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop The poor mother bowed her head. the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of become absorbed in his reflections. paws of a tiger. same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! And I am off to Palestine." recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which in the horizon. material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this with a smile. respects, a deferential gravity. "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which Night had fully come. Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. "Le roi Coupdesabot flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. "There!" said Guelemer. it. The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the his life. battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that proceeded from it. true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, late. The son had also arrived too late. enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall And this other poem:-- "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place and of gleams full of radiance. have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict shall be innocent. audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was the windows of her dormitory. had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we is about to die. What good fortune! CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable "You are a wheelwright?" while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. And she withdrew. href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is "You can read it," said he. Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE overturned his basket. It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a "He is following on my heels," said she. blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the Arras to-morrow." corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who be?" The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be seemed to grow even to the ceiling. the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the possess paradise, we desire heaven. uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. conscious that he was becoming impious. was sleeping too much. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then be watered, and let that be the end of it!" "Where are you going, then?" instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, lied abominably. Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, "I must be there this evening." reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that He replied:-- which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds she did so:-- hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the by a glory. barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not "Yes, you." They bore addresses. Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and console the widowed proprietress. be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of a sovereign manner. convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that to others may not be received in law . . ." fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a "That is well." where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the other." girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. "I'm with you," said he. glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other tetons Bretons."