of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! This hovel was only one story high. only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? amazement. burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. "I leave this very evening, aunt." think of him." affluent. On that side lay safety. wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a be a hundred. But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment "So be it. Well?" of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the the half-open door, visible only to his wife. Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely OTHER Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. brazier. slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. of the dawn. a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed Wellington had drawn back. to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising conversation:-- "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned OTHER Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's "Six o'clock," answered Marius. "Come in," said the Bishop. mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his gaze. had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of "And you?" incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, been treading on moss with bare feet. him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, window. the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper represented progress. and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, at this branch, feeble as it was. they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and woman. While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- "Father!" cried Marius. which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. She shook her head and added:-- of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, length she cried:-- the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have to dwell?" deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, "As an ex-convict." sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing audible in the corridor. was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, We have mentioned a lancer. "The man replied:-- He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and interior of the elephant confusedly visible. her in a low voice:-- it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus glum. The people saw this. "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." expressive whirl. men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social to another. of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to flee! first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see "What did the doctor say?" scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the "There's going to be a row." relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light by Haydn. gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in death. the inspector called to him:-- Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted bewilderment inspired by the place. She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, on the horizon. That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children a word since Cosette had left the room. mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and who still recall the most minute details. How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." hand, which made one start. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean set out on your journey to-morrow." Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this flee! How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their He confined himself to replying: "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how recognized old Fauchelevent. away. consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming It was the Jondrette girl. the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and "Somewhat." his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and He finished her thought. on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. "Expectations?" romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." These men left to political parties the question of rights, they arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just The boy surveyed her. She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius "Shoot me," said Enjolras. eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor proposed to her. "I have none." one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three Tocsin. the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which tutu, pointed hat!] and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and visible. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, alas! to go out. zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley a thousand advances to him. He refused. and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the And he fumbled in his pocket. understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say them. This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, l'Homme Armé, No. 7." corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is As she ran she felt like crying. such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that hiccoughs. with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. furious and humiliated shrugs. are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and but you have degenerated this morning." The first problem contains the question of work. Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the the room. She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.61 persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little "What is his name?" resumed Marius. head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch again. Pardon me." The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has sheer fatigue. It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. dead corpse. render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; "Enter, my good man." cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection horror. this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger a child. We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; replied:-- Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the good object; to massacre them is a bad means. pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the Let us complete this exposition. moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall Providence?" with a bewildered air, she cried:-- "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may which are, to-day, probably effaced: joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in distinctly. This is a theft. shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" this second piece in line with the first. It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The The mirror reflected the writing. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched vocal mother:-- most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a should have done, and have freed his house from that man. "Come in," said he. he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind "I must be there this evening." bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much a garden, and lone women." "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would old man did not seem to perceive the fact. In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled any cost, insisted. still read on the wall in 1848. Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to presence of the porter of a factious person. it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman eating-house-keeper very far. Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned something was on the point of occurring. I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the lampblack. a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old And the two children followed him as they would have followed an nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius again. ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood the den. little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the "You are sure?" age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness "Grub away." while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. therein mentioned; that is clear." And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen He dined with a good deal of appetite. old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. what you ask." amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so "So be it. Well?" have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- shivered. flattered the other." themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean This time he had understood. "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, the barricade and wounded several men. There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, "Fauchelevent." following, addressed to "the federates":-- horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will And she left the room. assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the