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LES MISERABLES (THE WRETCHED ) llokl. BY VICTOR Huao . A NEW TRANSLATION, REVISED, IN FIVE PAETS: I. PANTINE. III. MARIUS. II. COSETTE. IV. ST. DENIS. V. JEAN VALJEAN. PART II. COSETTE RICHMOND: WEST & JOHNSTON 1863 NOTE TO THE PUBLIC.—The last three parts of "LES MISEEABLES," viz: Marius, St. Denis a,nd Jean Valjean, will be issued in one volume. Should the Publishers succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of paper, (its scarcity having greatly delayed^ all their late issues,) they hope to complete the whole work early in the month of August. CHAS. H. WYNNE, PRINTER, RICHMOND. CONTENTS BOOK FIRST. WATERLOO : TAGE. I.—What you Meet in coming from Nivelles 9 II..#-Hougomont 10 III,—The 18th of June, 1815, 15 IV.—A '. „.. 16 v.—The Quid Obscurum of Battles ,: 18 VI.—Four o'clock in the Afternoon 20 VII.T—Napoleon in good humor , 21 VIII.—The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste 25 IX.—The Unlooked For ., 27 X.—The Plateau of Mont Saint Jean 29 XI.—Bad Guide for Napoleon; Good Guide for Bnlow 33 XII.—The-Guard , 34 XIII.—The Catastrophe 35 XIV.—The Last Square 36 XV.—Cambronne , 37 XVI.—Quot Libras inDuce? 39 XVII.—Must we approve Waterloo? 42 XVIII.—Recrudescence of Divine Right.. 43 XIX.—The Field of Battle at Night 45 BOOK SECOND. THE SHIP ORION: L—Number 24601 becomes 9430 49 II.—In which a Couple of Lines will be Read, which came, perhaps, from the Evil One " 51 III.—Showing that the Chain of the Iron Ring must needs-have under gone a Certain Preparation to be thus Broken by one Blow of the Hammer .• 54 BOOK THIRD. FULFILMENT OP THE PROMISE TO THE DEPARTED: I.—The Water Question at Montfermeil 58 II.—Two Portraits Completed 60 III.—Men must have Wine and Horses Water 63 IV.—A Doll enters upon the Scene 65 V—The Little Girl all alone :.. 66 VI.—Which perhaps proves the Intelligence of Boulatruelle , 69 VII.—Cosette Side by Side with the Unknown, in the Darkness 72 VIII.—Inconvenience of Entertaining a Poor Man who is perhaps Rich,.. 74 IX.—Thenardier Manoeuvring 84 via CONTENTS. PAGE, X.—Who seeks the Best*may find the Worst .—. 89 XI.—Number 9430 comes up again, and Cosette draws it 92 BOOK, FOURTH. THE OLD GOEBEAU HOUSE : I,—Master Gorbeau,, 93 IL—A Nest for Owl and Wren 97 III.—Two Misfortunes mingled make Happiness , 98 IV.—What the Landlady Discovered ^.. 101 V.—A Five Franc Pidce falling on the Floor makes a Noise 102 BOOK FIFTH. A DARK CHASE NEEDS A SILENT HOUND: I.—The Zigzags of Strategy , » 105 II.—It is Fortunate that Vehicles can cross the Bridge of Austerlitz. „. 107 IIL—See the Plan of Paris of 1727 108 IV.—Groping for Escape 110 V.—tVhich would be impossible were the Streets lighted with Gas 112 VI.—Commencement of an Enigma , .' 114" • VIL—The Enigma Continued .., 116 Vin.—The Enigma Redoubles , 117 IX.—The Man with the Bell 119 X.—In which is explained how Javert lost the Game 121 BOOK SIXTH. PETIT PICPUS: L—Petite Rue Picpus, No, 62 127 IL—The Obedience of Martin Verga 129 III.—Severities 134 IV.—Gaieties 135 V.—Distractions 187 VL—The Little Convent, 140 VIL—A few Outlines in this Shade 141 VIIL—Endof the Petit Picpus 142 BOOK SEVENTH, CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN THEM: I,—Which Treats of the Manner of Entering the Convent 143 II,—Fauchelevent Facing the DifiBculty , .*,.. 148 III.—Mother Innocent 150 IV.—In which Jean Valjean has quite the Appearance of having read Austin Castillejo 153 V.—It is not Sufficient to be a Drunkard to be Immortal 157 VI.^n the Narrow House 160 Vll.—'In which will be found the Origin of the Saying: Don't lose your Card 161 VIIL—Suecessfal Examination ; 166 IX.—Th^ Close 168 LES MISERABLES C 0 S E i IE . WATERLOO I. WHAT YOU aiEET IN COMING EROM NIVELLES. ' On a beautiful morning in May, last year, (1861), a traveller, he wfio tebs this story, was journeying from Nivelles towards La Hulpe. He travelled a-foot. He was following, between the rows of trees, a broad road, undulating over hills, which, one after another, upheave it and let it fall again, like enormous waves. He had passed Lillois vand Bois- Seigneur-Isaac. He saw to the west the slated steeple of Braine-1'Al- leud, which has the form of an inverted vase. He had just passed a wood upon a>'hill, and at the corner of a cross-road, beside a sort of worm-eaten sign-post, beaming the inscription—Old Toll-Gate, No. 4— a tavern with this sign: The Four Winds. Eschal$a.u, Private Caf6. Half a mile from this tavern, he reached the bottom of a little valley, where a stream flowed beneath'an arch In the embankment .of the road. The cluster of trees, thin-sown but very green, which fills the vale on one side of the road, on the other spreads out Into meadows, and sweeps a,way in graceful disorder towards Braine-rAUeud. At this point there was at the right, and immediately on the road, an inn, with a four-wheeled cart before the door, a great bundle of hop- poles, a plough, a pile of dry brush near a quick-set hedge, some lime which was slnoking in a square hole in the groundj and a ladder lying along an old shed with mangers for straw. A young girl was pulIiBg weeds in a field, where a large green poster, probably of a travelling show at 8om6 annual fair, fluttered in the wind. At the.corner of the inn, beside a pond, in which a flotilla of ducks was navigating, a diffi cult foot-path lost itself in the shrubbery. The traveller took this path. At the end of a hundred paees, passing a wall of the fifteenth centifry^ surmounted by a sharp gable of crossed bricks, be foaad himself oppo- 2 19 LES MISERABLES. site a great arched stone doorway, with .rectilinear Impost, in the solemn style of,Louis XIV., and plain medallions on the sides. Over the en trance "was a severe fifgade, and a wall perpendicular to the facade almost touched the doorway, flantiug it at an abrupt ri^rht angle. On the.mea dow before the door lay three harrows, through Avhich were blooming, as best they could, all the flowers of May. The doorway was closed. It was shut by two decrepid foldiug doors, decorated with ah old rusty knocker. The sunshine was enchanting; the branches of the trees bad that gentle tremulousness of the month of.May which seems to come from the birds' nests rather than tbe wind. A spruce llttfe bird, probably in love, was singing desperately in a tall tree. The traveller paused and examined in the stone at the left of the door, near the ground, s. large circular excavation like the hollow of a sphere. Just then the folding doots opened, and a peasant woman came out. She saw the traveller, and perceived what he was examining. "It was a French ball which did that," said she; "and," she added, "what you see there, higher up, in the door, near a nail, is the hole n\ade by a cannon ball. The ball has not gone through the wood." "What is the name of this place?" asked the traveller. " Hougomont," the woman answered. The traveller raised his head. He took a few steps and looked over the hedges. He saw in the horizon, through the trees, a sort of hillock, and on this hillock something which, in the distance, resembled a lion. He was on the baittle-field of Waterloo. II. H0UGOMONT. Hougomont—this was the fatal spot, the beginning of the resistance, the first check encountered at Waterloo by this great butcher of Europe, called Napoleon; the first knot under the axe.i It was ^ chateau-; it is now nothing more than a farm. Hougomont, to the antiquary, is Hugomons. This manor was built by Hugo, sire de Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth cbaplainship of tbe abbey of Villers. The traveller pushed open the deor, elbowed an old carriage tinder the porch, and entered the court. The first thing that he noticed in-this yard was a door of the sixteenth century, which seemed like an arch, everything having fallen down around it. Near the arch opens another door in the wall, with keystones of the time of Henry IV., which discloses the trees of an orchard. Beside this door were a dung hill; mattocks and shovels, some carts, an old well with its flag-stone and iron pulley, a skipping colt, a strutting turkey, a chapel surmounted by^ little steeple, a pear-tree in bloom, trained in espalier on the wall of the chapel J this was the court, the conquest of which was. the aspi ration of Napojeon. This bit of earth, could he have taken it, would perhaps have given him the world. The hens are scattering the dust wiflh their beaks. You hear a growling: it is a great dog, who shows Ms teeth, and takes the place of the English. COSBTTB. • 11 The English fought admirably there. The four companies of Guards under Cooke held their ground for seven hours, against the fur^ of an assaulting army. ' Hougomont, seen on the map, on a geometrical plan, comprising build ings and inclosure, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one corner of which is cut ofi".