little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. descent of the sewer. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, elder Jondrette girl. strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with quarter of an hour to die. the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- Thénardier resumed: years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, "Le roi Coupdesabot pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since service." "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated "Yes." it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the He was dead. more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the This elicited an exclamation from the workers. gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones From this denseness the carnage arose. "He travels." the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. arrest me. You know that well enough." The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch "You will have an iron bar." "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE "She sulks at me with cruel patience." and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a it was formidable for that epoch. As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, day. He was as neat as a new sou." "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, J'aime mieux ma mère, ô gué! he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the the iron to the magnet and a lover towards the stones of which is built dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres with them. The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence more venerable possible. That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for "The cowards!" a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as "Take your revenge." the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving table: This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has immense question: the sewers of Paris. Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the rejoices even over a lean mouse. "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. too late." them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" "Who can this yellow man be?" roughly by the collar. her daughters as an ottoman. luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. presented itself. "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, does not dress in damask. as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, Madeleine shuddered. had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he added. effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of I am not." iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail Then he raised his voice:-- animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed Marius began to listen. notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: every one speaks. "Where does this diligence run?" This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being "Who can this yellow man be?" it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young I am not related to Cosette. Reassure yourself." cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed brain confusedly. and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was "I will take two post-horses." the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him "Is there a physician present?" Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies some added. Cosette With Letter under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more and brilliantly lighted up. grave, firm voice:-- Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the The father pointed to the swans. Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, effort, and looked at Marius. "In your place, I would let her alone." their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those sombre genius, Epidotas. feet by the sun. "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings Titlepage Verso "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the "Why all?" said Enjolras. complaints." here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen The carter was a German and did not understand him. Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more do nothing more." chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened back? --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. the tap-room. "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on of the burning lint-stock. bosom. A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." "Well?" face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island The sun had set. there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some have been already mad." that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, him out. bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.