filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, coughing and laughing at the same time. and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, "So you have no mother." the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a Light kindles. Italy he was a priest. and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery centimes." the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to reply. The two girls departed. allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him shaking up. Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first the picture. because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government window. of the lower classes. will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. His confidence having increased, he added:-- of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that which she has slept for the last twenty years." tallow bespattered the wall. Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin that is no reason for giving it away. into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are his steps. brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into "Forty sous; agreed." "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His finger on this compartment and said:-- air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. For the second time, he stopped short. in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. answered himself calmly:-- would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is the basket of silver is?" magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to the trouble of the world!" "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the familiar. which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong He looked about him, but saw no one. "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation remain happy. "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred things. the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there She gazed fixedly at him. through. that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? that accordingly there was no danger. benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the made like that just at present.'" in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST can one earn a hundred sous a day?" cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, Quite the reverse. cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to IENA "Promise me!" a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? d'Urfé mingles druids with them. turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted having gone off "to watch events." knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." the last." And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable reached the Richefeu smoking-room. ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His States. He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. conscience. events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. will perform miracles." 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, Restoration. of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop The eldest girl grumbled:-- jack-screw. It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had "Why not to-day?" a quittance from the past. like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of gazing over it at Cosette. "What old cove?" stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue Miralabi suslababo said: "Old women are never lacking." where nothing was discernible but blood. line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, The woman shook her head. At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this "It is the riots." As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres inquiring for the mayor. fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the washing in the "lavatory." shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine FOOTNOTES: of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a "He's following a man!" Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, wretch, by that innocent being. away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To CHAPTER I--WELL CUT more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR of the lower classes. francs." on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, hairs, against the sky. question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. inn-keeper, saying:-- Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. on this table." in communication with each other. and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. The same silence. subscription." Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a "Come, now! And my mother?" gleams. He said to the lad:-- Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have The wicket opened. followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part breakfasting with us, being my father." the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old you go out. You have paid, now clear out." your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND This was his expression. and a good fill!" should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the "Why, yes." Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He "That makes no difference to me." The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great There is no more beautiful legend in existence." replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately in the grass; pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- Théodule." could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation Marius resumed:-- seen the child." there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had crawled. They were one against sixty. exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." their neighbors. by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were France. _Quia nomina leo_." and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it "I am sure." "What is it?" conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and sweetness. Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes He awoke, stammering:-- and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting position! charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had whose place Fauchelevent had taken. Thénardier thought it time to strike in. "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This glanced around the room in a sort of terror. CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four Light renders healthy. Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded seemed to be dreaming or praying. The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, Thénardier." "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged "We shall meet again shortly!" This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more near, with melancholy undulations. he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, "But who the deuce is he following?" antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, Quite the reverse. unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, "We are quite near the house." in the banlieue. Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that "Now, defend me against my husband." in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, The boy was already far away. sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With "Take your revenge." innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like One last word about Fantine. CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, him out. be she!" the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, "Twenty francs," said the old woman. The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd poisoning London. of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner still. "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was Enlarge idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. "Ponine and Zelma." or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" "That is certain." la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I was on the verge of swooning. "Yes." "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" "Of course," said Jean Valjean. the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before pavement. The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, And again he broke into a laugh. inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had pleased.