from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is alongside. that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of "Yes, the rats." Then she departed. He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the Thénardier counted for but one man. The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against does not prevent them from being of use. follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be "Show the man in," said Marius. thrown something at his head. female Thénardier. The rag-picker cried:-- The inspector muttered:-- hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of thunder:-- plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was the Rue de Chaffaut. MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER as they passed by. of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that from the night. admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names allows itself to be flogged. splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man black night. reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay by Haydn. resumed:-- stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of that, as children, they have a right to flowers. heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a This began the loss of the battle. gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor she had a black hole in her mouth. Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- Then he blew his nose noisily. "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." Courfeyrac's door. And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed "A bullet." But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in "Yes." It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to an hour. "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and "I do not understand you," said Marius. "Pewter has an odor." soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. shallots. seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and And again he broke into a laugh. with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which Mysterious incidents occurred. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it three letters of that word: She. are white with powder.] And he fell fainting. brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- him say:-- darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and still more so for the English than for the French. your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the regard to what his father was about to say to him. The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her Thénardier continued:-- or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened to address him. 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on "No." One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average thieves had given him. period? yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small Frontpapers At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an mustaches. a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint He inquired of this usher:-- than that of handing in his resignation. This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog "Have you knocked at that one?" "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. made him a sign to look behind him. any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A "I'm going to put these infants to bed." "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is "He told me that he was in good health." himself. Then, raising his voice:-- useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was _regulating his household expenses_. It was inauspicious. apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging jack-screw. and three wounded. her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: length; we should almost say, to underline it. in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, will be if I do not denounce myself." order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses fault of the disinherited. one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom Then he exclaimed:-- ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean to trembling. I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had "Yes." "That I must be dismissed." He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant alarm peal from Saint-Merry. one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. "I will give it," said the mother. noise, which was sweet yet sad. wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. He answered in a low, curt voice:-- effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending attitude of contemplation. "That is true." life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath twenty paces in advance of Marius. perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which "That is true," said Jean Valjean. morning." surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that lied abominably. M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which completed the bar across the street. arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived Javert entered. her, and a holy one it was. She sold all that she had, which produced arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different small garden. "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every returned to Paris. die." Jean Valjean began to laugh. While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are him!" become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is "While, at present, I am relieved." worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and against it. apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's descend the staircase rapidly. one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who going on. Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war "Yes." "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light. presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every times. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the The father replied: brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by She murmured:-- As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- wretch, by that innocent being. Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." "That horse is very much fatigued." this, the barricade burst into a laugh. the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. "Make haste to bring Cosette." the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his death ought to be a masterpiece. truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, inquired:-- clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" there were no longer any lanterns. At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic the same to have the cross!" that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You "He has the air of a man who is following some one." and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as the windows of her dormitory. low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry Enlarge They searched him. on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? Marat. When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. destroyed, Somerset remained. The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; have been already mad." And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same "No." subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides "Get into bed," replied the man. office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. camels." The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. "Well, am I anybody?" could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I "For my part, I shall not return." as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which There is moonlight." One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances porter, he put them in his pocket. him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events Gavroche. service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the