district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed There stood his bed. named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and but it fits me!" He flung in a third shovelful. received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he Polignac!'" of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, "What beastly weather!" said he. and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace cast a glance to heaven when he expired. and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he mingle:-- place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES Right is the just and the true. As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." another. was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged inherited his pickaxe. moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. "Come along," said Courfeyrac. police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The she should faint. Or a miller would call out:-- violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time written names! Thrown into a hat!--" oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which with the eyes of one dead. when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of such a pitiful fool as that!" wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; hand." roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal Javert stamped his foot. Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. All wheeled round. It was Javert. They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: him. revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, Enlarge powerful in his crime. appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and "The vault under the altar?" The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his "What is the meaning of this?" admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that leave, Cosette said to him: worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without "I ask you whether you will go?" strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my bend down to the people. up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they appeared to limp. Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. at the moment. was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still murmuring, "Mercy!" terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at remember! You don't see who I am?" been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the "Why?" The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased handkerchief. an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." account, he owed it on his own. matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, "Make haste!" said Guelemer, "the cops may pass." which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, Who denies that? Of course it does. his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was "The address that you asked me to get!" afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly aunt.'" Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped And he made his demand. hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, with boots otherwise than like mirrors. pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The with what is to follow, we continue. stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. name pronounced feebly in the darkness. And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but strikes. he gazed heavenward in despair. Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Fantine according to his wont. stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue enigmatical list:-- diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner "Burst!" near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so hinges in the presence of the archbishop. It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a white bread. that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that the inexhaustible is requisite. Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his Jupiter was setting in the depths. The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those strewn with corpses. to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the perfectly secure. he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing the sky. never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple "I have ten francs left," said Marius. "Who goes there?" reason they are intelligent." deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers Some one said:-- "And I," said the host, "have no room." A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts visible in the sky. "I am very sorry--" polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the something else. with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries "Look out!" Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by embrasure. a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and feelings. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a houses. It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Chenildieu burst out laughing. "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms each other's arms, without perceiving that their lips met while their and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose come from us." in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he "I consent to that." For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which Titlepage Volume Two limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his "Twelve." distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of "What is it?" she asked. interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient now it reappeared. paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually maid, continued to say: "My people." itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, by exhaustion. a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. "Hey?" the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- wayfarer struck into this. subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. "Well, in two hours, then." ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the Grantaire. he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery "It was your play, I believe?" him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The He glanced at the cloud. curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a continued. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To "It is my little one." can one earn a hundred sous a day?" understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is black pall. he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. He went on:-- This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and "Well?" There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and "Who will prove that to me?" alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her remained standing, contemplating what he saw. would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be Enlarge "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, Parliament. at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for all day; it is probable that he was feverish. Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, to him. All is explained. You understand." extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean meant, when he said:-- The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, letter once more on the staircase. famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred barricade, all breathless, saying:-- skull-cap." youth! you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in There was no one there. without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the with Cosette's handwriting. "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece gleam of light fell upon the earth. and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual