book begining

Help me out here guys. I think this is the begining line of a book but im not sure… it was written in an email to me by my father before he killed himself. if u know what this is id apreicate it if you would help me…
“An hour before sunset on the evening of a day in the beginning of October in 1815, a man travelling afoot entered the little town of d…”

im not sure

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Hugo/Les_Miserables/

I’m sorry :frowning:

Oh - and it’s the first line of Volume I, Second book.