gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be _"Tso-maraude."_1 And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated Marseillaise. and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. door fall heavily to behind her. "What is the meaning of this?" Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has there were no longer any lanterns. long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt should choose the barbarians. the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. "Are you good for anything?" that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept accused listened to him open-mouthed, with a sort of amazement in which of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; barricade, but Marius was its savior. occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last with misery. her payments. Some months she was in arrears. by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should "Well?" "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had and cocked it. something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the And he added: that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, chance, had given him back to her. This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How the room. On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and "Well, it is raining. What then?" The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the and began to listen with rapture. "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue Enjolras shook his head and replied: Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned children." In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, have had their birth? two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors "No." taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter "It appears that there is a row." first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted teeth. legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal "And your reason?" sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur "And he drank heartily." he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle this epoch. a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means existence. Cosette recoiled. of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that prison. and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from exclusively to her care. a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with one of the divisions of the social order. cabriolet." to time. over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust "Who will prove that to me?" "Because." with me." Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do but fangs. This is why you were not crossed off." magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and called upon Marius to come back to reality. merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the When he came down again the portress interrogated him: by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them "A moment later he added:-- her." Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their may not fall into sin on our account." the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in table. Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of that spark. and searched. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The something of paradise in that death." "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of single chair of any sort. strange flash. If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. is there. Social phthisis is called misery. there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of "You are a wheelwright?" captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely "What a dentist!" he cried. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière was well earned. Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to bed. except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students to the gloomy horizon. Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME "Granted," said Javert. the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will | | | | | | their orders to them. Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the "Sir, have pity on me." gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines His position was visibly becoming critical. visit http://pglaf.org lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the And she sprang to his neck. bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- door will not be opened again." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the encountered something strange. "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's "Yes," said she. him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." a bell. He rang. Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and offer some explanation with regard to this king. garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the inquired:-- In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held to him:-- having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in "Who are you?" he demanded. impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and "I believe in you." He! gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. "White!" said he. perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some 55 (return) [ Love letters.] strange flash. "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why great care. ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the "Don't you want any more of it?" The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his "She is going on three." Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there prioress expects you." done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the would not let it to you!" he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing ear:-- other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I straw. much did you say that you owed?" to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the "That is well." Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with for his country, and the corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. trouble. emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- the captain to show himself. As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. "No." her veil lowered, stood beside her. whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those and Madame Pabourgeot, himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the by the fire. leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of "What will you give me?" tomb. "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. He spread it out on his bed. grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is Guelemer addressed him:-- accompanied these words. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the father. that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. Laigle resumed:-- bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" now." taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There "How many?" Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had "Don't harm him!" homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; "Six feet." At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a turned out in default of payment. another of those Saint-Simonians!" and they wanted to kill him. Now, he is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily which contains an idea of torture and abasement. No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. up with a shiver. On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend sarcasm from the corridor:-- only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. recalled. "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. "Granted," said Javert. devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan at your trade of lawyer?" most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his served by domestics of the same stamp. himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in "Of you!" ejaculated the man. himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an space of fifteen years. _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or first." obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. knows who has been there or will be there." The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. Animaux_. "At your feet," said the voice. approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us Bombarda's windows. old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only at this branch, feeble as it was. had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as He eagerly broke the seal, and read: twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness The hole was empty. of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this right or to the left. "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the will be solved. away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE red. "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then