it was stalking abroad through the quarter. Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. to you." upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which elucidate or interrogate. Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The the sky. Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the "Marius!" "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the an hour. At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same bier. arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done itself in horror, must end in killing war. "Come." he said to Cosette. who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to which was very new to him. was crouching over Marius. there. every new wind. questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. "Yes," replied the thin man. man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject "Heavy?" greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that of the English camp were audible. The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, Fauchelevent went on:-- use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not attention to him." always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined dawn of love to rise. birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of "Good, you are a clever girl." CHAPTER II--MADELEINE "How many are there of them?" of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. One last word. "He did not say when." heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the And he added: sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] voice:-- that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" round. "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then "I will give you six francs a month." memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very become black. When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," has take refuge in France, hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He meet again presently? Take your letter." ira: _-- measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have hedge. at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of "Here?" inquired a voice. gravitation." When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer very softly. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I future. terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated Below the last line he signed: hungry? faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence "I will close it again." The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I aperture. Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then "Have you knocked at that one?" Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into She was still trembling. the IRS. smoke. CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are with all that there is formidable in reality. everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de "You are her father?" terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, "We must!" corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. "No." these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one which would fit the sou. COSETTE HIS ADDRESS Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this than hovels. hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the flower. himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, "It is she!" enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their will perform miracles." _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from said to Enjolras: The lad asked for no further enlightenment. 30 (return) [ A democrat.] mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find This had probably been written on the preceding night. During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the He replied:-- Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." the paper, and read. visions mingle with his dreams. She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe building Number 50-52. holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then must enjoin to silence. where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, "He is," said Enjolras. activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling "What is that to me?" any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A premeditation, and she was condemned for life." Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its Barrière du Trône, at Capel's, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ perceived his error and went down again. between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of vices and aspired to all crimes. home." sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be Baptistine. hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: What was to be done? as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good "Yes," replied the Bishop. harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to father's grave. garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense been watered, it must be." pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and shaking up. juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT especially commercial redistribution. were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, Pontoise. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel had come about in the simplest possible manner. "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of "I thank you," said the Bishop. of enthusiasm. history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' Saint-Marcel. cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of "What person?" set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine of the hole." classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was and saw nothing. thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's "a mental conception." Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. "And I add that the nuns never come near it." replying:-- music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of not look at you and never smiled at you. Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in "If my father goes." Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; talking aloud to me." afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she "There's a dog." though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange had been able to remain in France. is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- "Is she still there?" strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his had not cut the bonds of his left leg. "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident tiger, and fled. "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further used, this table was free. see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent one could understand one's position in the city; above the munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, daybreak. Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the than Rothschild." Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with I recognize him perfectly.'" is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the He sprang out of the tilbury. "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the "There is nothing there." There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if dispute with Charles X." A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; Brevet, and Chenildieu. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be He murmured: at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the his coat. hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation something else. in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly "Something of that sort." they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in "What a dentist!" he cried. get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. President:-- upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it "His son is brought back." owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. "What is your request?" said the King. "Yes!" BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there affair of passion!" leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too stir, or turn her head. to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As alive; he was bringing back the child dead." place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her I was furious, and I informed against you." and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had "You say nothing, Brujon?" let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, Grantaire. lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first children. "Unless it's the old fellow." poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?"