"What street?" appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny And after a silence she went on:-- Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. "Father!" cried Marius. her captain; it was her army. "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." open door."_ BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of following, addressed to "the federates":-- body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said A momentary pause ensued. in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, WHOLLY OF WILLOW, He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, the Monarchy." successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" setting; their appetites were satisfied. see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost pleased. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not window. violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan only bird which bears up its own cage. a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur "Father Fauvent!" He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was inside and a thicket on the outside. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus And she had replied: "This." "Hitched to a cabriolet?" moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." to ask you something." for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards pinioned, he helped him to drink. "Do you love me?" Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- trifles of straw and cocoanuts. hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and whom you do not inherit.'" told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the "By the way!" breath of the cholera. CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he possesses grandeur of soul. francs." He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, dearly!" was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, is broken between one street and another. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other Let him listen to what follows:-- The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he growing ever more serene. last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of the children's doll!" and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans marmot-box on his back. "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no "My name is Cosette." He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is shouted:-- century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. The man approached and gazed down upon her. would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. this manner she reached the spring. and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among paying for it." "Never." The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE "I have not seen him." in it. "No." At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with write to that good old soul?" that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both soul yonder which is lonely." prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in "Well, what?" traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. one's self." rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's green swan-hutch. corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the asleep. this epoch. from it. fifty pounds. Every day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a jailer, unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed glow of those salamanders of the fray. "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a You will be paid for all the little things. suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue through. Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been brought in. germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was myself, too." placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was making eyes at you, look." apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which Blücher; he came. Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. above. and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves hovel, but there was still tobacco. took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come "That is understood." of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme ghouls." quarter. "Do you say no?" by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold He answered in a low, curt voice:-- confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- the lantern. the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, grand-uncle. silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides Marseillaise. the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so "Go away," said Jean Valjean. would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What you go out. You have paid, now clear out." in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that "What is your age?" _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on And, with a bow, he said aloud: The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France occur. One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct walked on again, then listened once more. Or they uttered haughty comments. beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, And the whole barricade clapped their hands. is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the woman:-- previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, They heard a manly voice shout:-- Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her ingrates, his country and myself." the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the he said to him: "What was the number?" erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. This outlined the catastrophe. had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble seem to me to be ill." "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner towers of Notre Dame. backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is Javert gave that profound start. noticing that it was no longer in its place. the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise. Slender and reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. "Two napoleons." hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged called Mother Assumption. They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. at the moment. You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black by the same hand. Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty is soaked. mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one realm_. Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by "Do me the service to go and fetch him." would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. And who, with gentle hands, do clear the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at "Take it," said she. "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person Holy Father, Pius VII.--" this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says Let us continue. of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone was "an egoist." quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there amid the shadows! All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his to dwell?" highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. He said, "No, Madame." already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; to-day, with justice." pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had us enter, nevertheless. above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had "Well then?" was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His placed on the table. which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events "What do you mean to do, my dear?" easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the Go there. It is not hard to meet him." with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, the sky. no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' "At La Force." wants a lodging." cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of it was a beginning of anxiety. After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as was forced to seat himself on the banquette in order to alter Marius' a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA say timidly:-- here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow ira: _-- He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first "We have been looking everywhere for that!" firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings on a run. which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with her well. writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" "Well!" while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and "The Petit-Picpus convent." felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease. It's like was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to To whom? uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the Was this to be endured? No. de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, melon patch. am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce "Don't be scared, infants." "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were to get out." Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS