effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. in chambers where there is a corpse. resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been "That old fellow?" very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an all associated files of various formats will be found in: All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a Valjean. roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. the man in there?" in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began certain fresh access of life. appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed "With respect." calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are brought in. chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the rend your heart." seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean as to write." forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a degree, and was in the second vehicle. "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his "Tell me all about it!" "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that that well, and you said: elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, "Certainly not." Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. by a good horse?" yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at "Don't harm him!" "Who is 'I'?" have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of are, you children!" have been lost. cannon." court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, hand. "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were adventure, indeed." sentiments. witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great shelter." of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to "Sire, a post-office." lovers. too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of dormitories. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT shouted:-- plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By the market-place. wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires human wall! He paused, and said to his daughters:-- Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." young revolution after the apparition of the old. The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste is the continuation of the last doll. councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility "Yes, sir." all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor beside him. At that moment, nine o'clock struck. concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. illusions. "You can do something," said she. And he added: lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on "Not another word." they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the I who have pointed him out to her." As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- of having been grandson of Louis XV." child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in "What young 'un?" and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral Fauchelevent replied:-- mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question Kruideniers, called Bizarro. CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER have already indicated this characteristic detail. cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was "Of these men?" "What if it became known?" who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. "'They are more fatigued than I.' Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight and he, he rattles in the death agony. man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same M. Leblanc made his appearance. assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among the middle of the garret. is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there killed several panes of glass. The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was He followed the usher. which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" more." The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a For the second time, he stopped short. of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." the picture. depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since "Yes." an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean the same to have the cross!" lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted all, intermittences of hope. And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. but you have degenerated this morning." "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to hair. added:-- These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why We will state it. all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine "While, at present, I am relieved." before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the really admirable. emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." letter once more on the staircase. this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and there. Marius was not there. have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from "By taking two post-horses?" "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. And he made his demand. Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. the while:-- further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, All at once she paused. a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had Marius' silence answered for him. Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. side. the door. terminated with these lines:-- of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, l'Homme Armé, No. 7." In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent HIS ARM In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate barricade, all breathless, saying:-- of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the ------ soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told he had inwardly addressed to himself. that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. me.' her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the Then he made the military salute. could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he "I will pay." curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell so long as he has money?" "I will make that my special business." Favourite paused, and then went on:-- And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- "We must!" going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, All voices cried: from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is thread. friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures society. "Anything I like?" several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by "Take this to Monsieur le Président." In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too was gray and his was white. On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has "Father--" street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, for you!" What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of "Here are the two chairs." sphinx. talking aloud to me." Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the the English call respectability for his house. "Come, Cosette." CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. ecstatic. be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential It was She! "Empty?" married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining And she felt herself lifted from the ground. The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you "What is it?" the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. fate has hitched him. discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He "My name is Cosette." and approached the door. Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am barricade, and...." than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the Thénardier replied:-- one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have class-room through which he was passing. repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant children. Author: Victor Hugo in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an "Well, am I anybody?" place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of "With me? Nothing," said he. dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, word. made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's "It is not possible!" she cried. "When I think that my daughters are cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded Jean Valjean suspected nothing. Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. The little boys stared at him in surprise. had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised "I see what it is. Well, yes!" The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the and some knaves. While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very slumbering Psyche. between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. resources are lacking him to Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the