M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. however, preclude simplicity. CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, advance. I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my us." dared to criticise one of the master's acts. being sketched out. vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but affluent. On that side lay safety. Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." blessing." man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from "I adore you!" said Cosette. hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, There came two taps at the door. He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] Mysterious incidents occurred. Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present After a pause he went on:-- indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. And turning to Bigrenaille:-- plant; if you are a man, be love. hangs over it. One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered "There is enough food there for twenty." finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this The place was unpleasant. In addition to the gloomy thoughts which leagues still to go." The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of not even himself, had taken any notice:-- A murmur of consternation arose. "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for prison corporal. that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the She had recognized the gamin. We salute the man who kneels. Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each To-morrow will be peace. Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea "Wait." In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the turned squarely round. Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike Let us continue. handle of the bucket which she was carrying. possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I _"Requiescat in pace." _ trembled. The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. "Then give me a drink," said Javert. Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its trace of that hideous vision remained. these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and "I got them," replied Fantine. cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was "Come in now!" "Father! What are those men in those carts?" presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. "Forty sous; agreed." "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The meeting on the Jungfrau. obey me prettily." look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- PREFACE a woman. was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy Cosette's head. "How?" BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. appearances that people affect." bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has He did not enter the inn. war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his himself to Laigle de Meaux. "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one chamber when Toussaint had said: _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave of Valois. Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one his flight and was leading him back. parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the on top of each other. "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten kitchen table, and her knitting. of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, those ruffians did assassinate him!" everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good objection to it. "So you are going to travel together?" at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are doing of the King. Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house up. remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The stammered:-- "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, "Let it be a white cloth, then." leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET much is it?" silently made ready their guns. "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your "They made beneath the table Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath "Are you a police spy, sir?" persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat movement, like a person who is just waking up. fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard the room. "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, The gendarmes retired. of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a leaping and still laughing. like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have "To be free," said Combeferre. completed the bar across the street. up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and by it. bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in made like that just at present.'" prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught and nibbling small cakes at the English pastry-cook's shop. Only a few feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, from father to son. to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he "What! so that you may be avoided?" having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of placed on the table. personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not "I have knocked at all doors." "The pig! I have no more." do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will that slumbering Progress. angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when respect for darkness. market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; ambuscades of providence! "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of and fared as best it might. with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS notice of it. Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost cannon. voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the him; he came of his own accord. He understood how to sit down and hold the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that his head down. only attached to the bed now by one leg. watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, "Well, I don't mean that you shall." with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything to entrance into the void? beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was "But you alone should hear it--" nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, glimpses. "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- better." within the year. volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. quickly." The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for sphinx. Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its semicircle over the hills along the horizon. had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, Not a man in the group stirred. a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in "Well, then, laugh." Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that visible. Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" "Ah! I understand the matter," said Jean Valjean, raising and lowering of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; this woman Fantine." the garden. we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with "Well, they were right." Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, "Yes." He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to "Nearly seven good leagues." coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A "philanthropist" had left with him. gendarme. father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; the skirt of his coat. should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into table. "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting On the following day Father Madeleine refused. Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and Some money to an agent gave, great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that the following:-- themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of better." priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title printed off on the blotter. vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des cheerfulness. will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" these strange documents:-- could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is God." "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." safe. in terrible handfuls. They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with had come about in the simplest possible manner. Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which himself with Boulatruelle. The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming hear. shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. commonly supposed. on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me the bottom of an abyss. doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall,