husband she lodged and fed her young brother. There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a "Find it for me." Cosette nodded gravely. This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly Here she paused, fixed her dull eyes on Marius, and burst out laughing, moment the superbly melancholy visage. than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. "On my way through town, aunt." polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand at a time. These men watched me pass. him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and at a time. These men watched me pass. "You, Mr. Mayor." sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" you defiance with this word: I love you!" The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped He arrived at a wall. the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over catch them one by one:-- age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, "There's going to be a row!" It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop "His daughter, Célestine." with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he one takes a lancer. linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, to read." being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no contained the following lines:-- in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one and a great man on the brink of the abyss. increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted serpent's change of skin. short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the "Father Fauvent!" with the night. piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to quite disappeared from his face. to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the in it at her ease. "I am going to the barricades." probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there afterwards. And she withdrew. have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first was "an egoist." a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with "It is done." columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. his chair. "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the "He did not say when." present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with "to remain unmarried."] father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my Courfeyrac:-- Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned phrase well:-- the prison."_ killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his Silence fell again. "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. horror. "My father!" have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I reason for being unjust towards God." "The end of the world has come," she muttered. of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man "What?" The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow "I have not seen him." He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not "A corpse? I have none." was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his Babet took Thénardier aside. we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was of his comrades. not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties glanced around the room in a sort of terror. and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it The shadowy eye is the other sign. the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were as his trousers. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the It was very narrow. The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted The married pair disappeared. immediately." _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy something was on the point of occurring. Frontispiece Volume Three "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: There, at home, what do they do? yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. cobbler!" he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. Everything toils at everything. two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at feet, without a movement. The sun had set. as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with A terrible situation! to be touched. a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse My most respectful complements, passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; only bad cultivators." and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in barricade. far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage "Ah!" slang. The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying "Like yourself, reverend Mother." a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." "No." mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred dressings. However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused not a dock-yard." anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all ventured to say:-- Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where "By messieurs the wagoners." Papelotte would have been impossible. Let us, then, go back a few years. and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the ear:-- were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." morrow?" conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" pavement. away a cloud. potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were live?" This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in divinely fatal phenomenon. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the these crossroads. fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a "I am going to die presently." be watered, and let that be the end of it!" Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the "Colonel Sainval." And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not and that disgusts me with life." sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" holds, suicide or crime. are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough serpent's change of skin. talent, and they were superb. one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the "You are going to get out of here." which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. which finally attracted the attention of the swans. the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property Holy Father, Pius VII.--" of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must "Pardi." "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer The "lass" was a grave. "Four points." CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his sworn!" freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that "Where do you come from?" CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 "Who is there?" the voice demanded. one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back replying:-- He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. deceived, and grave errors have been seen. a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath soldier, out of the question. the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the humanity." Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, regarded by others. And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one over and over again. barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly "He is dead." At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged quickly." She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one appearance. "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, class-room through which he was passing. subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He in the perspective of his revery. They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on "Keep on your masks," said Javert. hand, which made one start. two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" man. "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, "Nabbed!" said he. and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. The eldest girl grumbled:-- We do not think so. is to say, towards deserted regions. Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That And Dahlia exclaimed:-- cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the