Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we guest, and said to him,-- Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as she asked him:-- witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] say." once." was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song "Monseigneur--" said he. doubt this. turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out "I got them," replied Fantine. "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on at the moment. little hard of hearing. head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I "Yes." with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must derivative of the night. was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. "One." BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or say." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. heavens. and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, Jean Valjean remained motionless. as his trousers. All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between the sound proceeded. him:-- is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious be an object coveted by all. of the English camp were audible. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." brain and the actions of his life! drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists bars. supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter No. 17." Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there Pogonatus." connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle infirmary and see Fantine. follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the the two entered the tap-room. the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of "What is it?" The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean halting-place. breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes that he pressed a hand of marble. whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. Frontispiece Volume Five The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he show me your money." Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is "Whereabouts is the bed?" supplied his place. puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also by passion. longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ she was trembling. haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that breath in the dark. grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." instead of _thou_ for the next three months. on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better the truth about Louis Philippe. female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means "How old is she?" exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul Marius replied with embarrassment:-- is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little sleeve:-- man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the "Alone?" multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered black night. and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a "I have my papers," he said calmly. bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in one coming." as the Mosque of Oumoumié at Damascus. Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human to you." porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED the immense blue pane of the firmament! country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." strained his ears. There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its axe. in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the time about it!" to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters "And what do those girls do?" He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly before him. here? It is a mistake." a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry wear a rosary at their side. the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius. On the 18th of an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His As we stroll the faubourgs through. "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were Cosette struck her tiny hands together. He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider "At my house," replied the old woman. nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a might fall asleep on it. other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not table. Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very often talks aloud. and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG trifles of straw and cocoanuts. lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the Enlarge linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went unhappy woman?" the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where stones was continued with gun-shots. and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have "Cosette." There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not star. last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted order. this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, twenty paces in advance of Marius. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold possibility had presented itself. the street like so many pockets of thieves. same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other "The philanthropist?" useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the men were earthen in hue. 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This The youngest, one. eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this The hearse halted. name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. "I did not understand what you said." not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger like to kick her stomach in for her!" Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were to the realities of life. like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: placed at the door of the tomb. great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, "What is your rank?" chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the to draw a long breath. He went on: old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, Jean Valjean took these little trips. Marius found himself alone. her wont. She had expected great results. When the man and Cosette had "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. "Yes, sir." stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled I have the honor to salute you with respect. the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse paroxysms of joy. catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, silver--" Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not day?" and inquired for the commissary of police. "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" There are instincts for all the encounters of life. personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient "There is no room." meditated. together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered visible. employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. Grand-Champ with four wafers. handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred things." "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two Whither? men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act "Go and get the child," said he. She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled gravitation." epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of presented himself and said to Marius:-- day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing belly!" printer's name. The stranger did not stir. accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the pass it before it is shut." are a good fellow, don't enter." phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, "A cannon-ball." woman had done all this without being conscious of it. everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, Montfermeil?" and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that Marius left the house. of realities. had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To galleys. Grand reign; grand century. Still the little one could not sleep. this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to out in minds. him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to The first effect was to dazzle him. upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in Paris, would have been one of these men. For the second time, he stopped short. Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both He finished her thought. CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits "I will learn English and German." spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and That made three. longer find his bearings. drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in L'amour de ma mère, "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be "And to hold your peace about everything!" you, that I have a picture to sell." the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be meditated. If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment But this good Clermont could not be The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet was on the verge of swooning. Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they She uttered a feeble cry. "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: done." passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast meagre supper. attention must be directed to power. This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." the bills for them, etc., etc. did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so "Hey?" said Gavroche again. Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to They idolized each other. children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows