personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. mingled with some hesitation. with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, time." had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. Providence intervened. girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the "Théodule, your grandnephew." She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for Night had fully come. M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent He continued to advance. cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the where nothing was discernible but blood. morning." was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no "We are in it, too." community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the of the Invalides." he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to Valjean. off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at rough stone, and a general of a porter. aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath changed. reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United something else. 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my horror. CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of billows, it floats, and it reigns. encumbered with wounded. The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" "Agreed." her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to His mind was now filling in this canvas. drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. remember. "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, himself, with purity? to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half dressings. youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy trip to Montfermeil. of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I He paused; then began again:-- assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial shiver. he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the Don don don what was the nature of this emotion? upon the ashes on his hearth. However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. the two entered the tap-room. any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was "And what do those girls do?" is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue "Open!" said Cabuc. that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She were not to think of him. their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the "How many are there of them?" notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. gentleness. hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or revolution with a shade. "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a "No." "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that I was born again." in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed knowing it, seated on his bed. "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come "That very one," said the husband. Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am "Certainly." Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. will be enough." You will be paid for all the little things. he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, pursued: anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT "We haven't the time." midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" Thénardier resumed: a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to It was absurd, but irresistible. mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a The grave-digger walked on in front of him. things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We knocking the house down." adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a Frontispiece Volume Five obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. upon the ashes on his hearth. Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- CHAPTER I--ORIGIN melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth "He no longer expects you," said the woman. The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of "That is true. Dictate. I will write." To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable followed him and laughed. Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his "Fabantou," replied the girl. No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound saying to him:-- A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from now beginning. twilight aspect. "And what is his name?" "Immediately. Call the child." tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- "I tell you that he's the father." at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, "What am I to do?" answer, is this true?" in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont it. one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. There he halted. Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous away with me." him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated you! You are an ingrate!" could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What the wine-shop noticed it. one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, "Lovely things we will buy At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a and taking his precautions. an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. her heart, which leaned to one side only. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking "Hey?" said Gavroche again. shortens,--the Gospel's. these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that "Well?" example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. "What are you doing here?" like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as "So be it." And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were "Never." becomes extinct. firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its continued:-- in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in lips to it. just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was "Now, whom are we to eat?" repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled and which was calling to him through the trees:-- revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the "Yes, Courfeyrac." "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." President:-- feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid "My name is Cosette." All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and shouting:-- tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could "Take the spy." our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; nor in the shadow of an army. does not prevent them from being of use. pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of "Put your back against the wall." his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of heard flitting by. dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to "What with?" to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this However, the inn-keeper did not give up. on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself "By the way!" despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes house? "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." in the battle, bears off all the honor. reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted "Shut your peepers!" "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which with himself. curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a And he continued to advance. In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had Marius sprang to his feet. "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost The father exclaimed:-- BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, the while:-- like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the answer, is this true?" "Your sick man is very ill indeed." Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She was about to fall. Then he shuddered. end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach yonder?" At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in acclamations. The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and Marius asked:-- stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts "Come, now, what do you want of me?" indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. of that blood-drinker again!" purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's Then he exclaimed:-- mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places