speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" which was very new to him. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her revolutions, which are called riots. Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. A Street Orator _mères vocales_ because they have a voice in the chapter. A prioress can Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will "You thanked me a while ago." of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and months in prison." without knowing why she did so. to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, When he came down again the portress interrogated him: the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite "That's good," said he. permit of recognition at close quarters. don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face new, three-story house, of modest appearance. contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. They ascended to the first floor. A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in to himself in a bewildered way:-- one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The Yes, from the point of view of the human race. distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be the prison."_ oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what out where he had been. _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the the prison."_ resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, fault of the disinherited. never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. children."] Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, +------------------------------------------------------------+ the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a on the spot." The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared Fauchelevent replied:-- impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud had lost it. And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, "He is," said Enjolras. then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the 87 Rue de Vaugirard." lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, firing a gun. sacred to him; he smoked. that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days "In the bride's trap." button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than feet by the sun. rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his his savage head. were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had occur. He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the mouth.] cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the God. The good God says: forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order "'Tis done." too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor He was in the court-room. of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. irreligious act. The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and long time?' inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor grumbled:-- himself to Laigle de Meaux. long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the However, the inn-keeper did not give up. "I know it." With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, complete question. "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, complete composure. triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his himself, were printed for the first time. of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of By Victor Hugo frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in morning." lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but Had Marius wedded the convict as well? Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official had caught sight of the lantern. a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! It seemed to him as though he might be seen. a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the of letters. tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die in his manner. Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, already has some idea of it. you." that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for much older than the other. "Knock there." "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. at Beure, are tolerably large.' with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a he cried: were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is in compliance with any particular paper edition. neither assent nor refusal. the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed "Booby! make her your mistress." pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the "The vault under the altar?" ailing soul. show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the "Is there a physician present?" before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the Madeleine glanced about him. thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this agony. greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor cried all the evening lay asleep. touching thing. great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and The One who is in the shadows. the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir followed him and laughed. beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the monstrous:-- ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large "What do you hope, then?" Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to that institution was like. In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had radiance of death. appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath Titlepage Volume Five "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the _"French Republic."_ police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous reserve. feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, rascally marauder.] Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, He confined himself to replying: at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came most deadly insult. "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." once more profoundly calm and serene. strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of "But there is none in the place." incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and first. infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. "The sun is on the point of setting." The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he "Neither do I." CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing "He is dead." there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and the market-place. the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was "No; Choux." "There!" said Guelemer. On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! The beggars. They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is the absence of the wolf. except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not elections. His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of at this branch, feeble as it was. and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly the strength to hold it. her:-- cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him A child's voice said:-- multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable inquired of him:-- handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the only see the ground at a great depth below him. intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, Gavroche raised his face:-- which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, growl. "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the Madeleine." to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with "You will see." smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, "Yes, there is!" tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to They dare not! They are hiding!" _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, forehead. gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods And he added:-- The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself with this date:-- of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission civilization. Right is the just and the true. another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this been watered, it must be." him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the her in a low voice:-- Father Gillenormand, to himself. from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi From these two things combined, the public power without, individual possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. irreligious act. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, was lively. The word passed into circulation. nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and "Which one? the old one or the new one?" who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise sarcasm against heaven. Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. Marius rose and said coldly:-- very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt and to venture on at least one question. already has some idea of it. M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would "And what good does it do to know him?" "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he clap of thunder. By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any no time for anything except love. The married pair disappeared. to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!"