And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." The vagabonds. His daughter did not understand. fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between It was M. Madeleine. "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de it was formidable for that epoch. Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. the young tree which is sawed off at the root? breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was under side of civilization. Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, you know!" old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP the world except Marius. Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of in compliance with any particular paper edition. through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were could hear the octogenarian breathe. tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened "One named Little Gervais?" felt cold because of that open window. gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of Blachevelle persisted:-- me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural announce to you, my fine fellows!" "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a as he loved Marius. Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine interrogated. Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once required. venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a with misery. make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, sound. loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like lugubrious stretches. His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to regard to what his father was about to say to him. CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed "That I must be dismissed." To peck at pa and ma." Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In the rhododendron was happy now. "Instanter," said Gavroche. density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything To-morrow will be peace. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the This was the idea:-- nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. bonnet. He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice." All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which "Certainly," replied the Bishop. assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL "You knocked him over cheap," said he. as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound bridle. Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The jury; it was evident that the man was lost. me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who it is at the Ambigu." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the "You know well that people refuse me." watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, without. If he has no doctor he will die." envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, "What for?" true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the Let us return to the ship _Orion_. combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and And off he went to the Lark's meadow. "Le roi Coupdesabot no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, that for?" A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments disorganization. to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed him. on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- "God will inspire us," said he. the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth axe. "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? period? presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: confession and inflict the penance aloud. Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the "Let me alone!" "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the Things could not go on in this manner. After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. resembled hesitation, broke it. to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him thousand years ago, "March on!" religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. which I mentioned at the Court of Assizes," and he arranged this piece "Well!" "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their monstrous:-- vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of "What is it?" "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, "He is," said Enjolras. "What will you eat?" A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the scratching his ear sadly. "What then?" "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, public house, some hovel, however lowly. fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could thinker than appeared to view. flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy questioning. in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." This is the way things went:-- burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became "Turned out," said Javert. like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. "Let me sleep here." dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B that prowler. humanity. and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the cap." levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills "That Javert committed suicide." orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was a strange and bitter aftertaste. and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray "Answer me!" cried Fantine. himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. sweetness. things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our motionless and speechless. none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the energetic and resolute push. When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. lost." Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of out at full length, and exclaimed:-- worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes the bride. Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all "After us!" yelled the ruffians. century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow air and his eyes still cast down. heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is tetons Bretons."