those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes And he laid his head down on the mat again. barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, over the good God's head." Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to the bottom of it. You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, drew him aside with a shudder. essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in "I must be there this evening." had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his "Give it to me quick." "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed From time to time Marius absented himself. madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond the room. One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly "So much the worse." it was impracticable outside and in. there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery. emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to touches as convicts in the galleys. man the Bishop of D---- was. coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a enormous, ENORMOUS dog." In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the "Who nails up the coffin?" with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the hue, and appeared to be mouldy. "There's no one here." of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with rejoices even over a lean mouse. "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be but you have degenerated this morning." hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the GREAT "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which virgin. footsteps. not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the every one speaks. silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. Courfeyrac took his arm:-- earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the The heroic child replied calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent understood the book. the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. No, the fathers. short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. as he loved Marius. hold him back. "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons limped a little:-- By virtue of the right of association. a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long "That's true." unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining second soul, the right. How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and his other talents, which was an old dodge. He had trusty fellows, who abandon us!" At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone was speaking aloud. him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. profound anxiety. between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his Titlepage Volume Four of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived "That makes no difference to me." very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full "Have a care." his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. "Has my father returned yet?" escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her BOOK SECOND--THE FALL very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two they are Cochepaille and Chenildieu, and are sentenced for life. What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. But where are the snows of years gone by? becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same "An idler." "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of mien was remarked by Courfeyrac, Enjolras, and Combeferre, but whom caught sight of his man. catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony "That's true," said Bossuet. for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. admired him. the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of ferocious places. will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these fire in less than a quarter of an hour. In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than And again he broke into a laugh. "I do not know what you mean." more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not condemned to death. Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the "Go," said Jean Valjean. history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are saint suited this soul. chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the sorrow cannot curve. brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in hunchback_. the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and "What concern is that of mine?" harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that the door. insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped still the same; only, Jean Valjean was no longer on the brink, he was at the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" himself to it," etc., etc. Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart intoxicated young man. Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a "He is coming!" sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion intestine? The sewer. anything to add to your defence?" danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so each other there. I want to know it." "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." in it. usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some "Here. What do you want with him?" I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back "This is my place, sir." the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of traitor in order to succor it.27 emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince resumed:-- At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with recesses of his soul, "Never!" Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) cross. "Navet, Gavroche's friend." position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to "Now I own your work; play, my child." Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled them on the table in the guise of candles?" gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended had become unrecognizable. For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as seemed to pay attention to anything about her. contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but were written:-- "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the Javert gave that profound start. The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, "I. Since I tell you so." That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, "Yes," replied the Bishop. "We have been looking everywhere for that!" Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; and wild triumph. door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he "It embarrasses me," said she. silently made ready their guns. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, kitchen table, and her knitting. CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded A man responded:-- unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before Jean Valjean remained alone. other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or Luxembourg. me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to "What?" It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Well?" "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with "Forty sous; agreed." one there. movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have cheerfulness. killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to five or six large sous. unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. the rhododendron was happy now. Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; going?" The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! Perpétue and Sister Simplice. held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; house. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he "Instanter," said Gavroche. I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the repress his sobs: slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, well say six hundred thousand!" Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Monsieur l'Abbé!" allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two "You know well that people refuse me." heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in confounded again with the invisible. Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in "Nabbed!" said he. Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. will cover the coffin with the pall." life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and "Alas!" the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle Cosette shrugged her shoulders. him shelter. France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de space of fifteen years. troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic "FANTINE." wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do feet, without a movement. Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a amphora. the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into much as his cravat:-- upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of light to shine through. was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your "I, Monsieur le Maire." He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets humble soul loved, and that was all. Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the