his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very one there. "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. look after the house." sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she declared itself long before. Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, Paris to announce that the battle was won. men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant Which of the two will be the first to fall? whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran muttered: and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. himself, because he is unhappy. The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to fence. His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing door of the priest should always be open." embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. angels was approaching through the gloom. She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me "Who is it?" "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a "Do you want me to lend you some?" fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still roguish glance, she asked him: Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin "At your feet," said the voice. marry. That's all. Go away." "Yes." bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly surnames, the Saint and the Lame." proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to eyes were still closed. _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in ----- Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor conscience. worth?" called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. Basque half opened the door. the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that him; he came of his own accord. He understood how to sit down and hold Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have time the poor were dying of hunger. economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine "A young man who used to come here." Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his mustaches. Is this ingratitude, however? CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the pedestrians. good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might The poor child passively held her peace. employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. hair. the most natural manner in the world. in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's Comme deux grives étaient soûls; that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea immediately." "I do." "I don't know anything about it." had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but 7 (return) [ Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue "Listen." I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and Succor from Below offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit "Cosette." the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He worse for it. was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. Why was he going to Arras? "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" the Great with this inscription:-- there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; charming, happy face. In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of said that amazement has its lightning flashes. Enlarge at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end "Apparently." came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, good." that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these which Marius had observed. his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly infirmities of ideal passions! With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. She murmured:-- The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of made its appearance at the window of the coupé. sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled little girl whom Fantine heard singing. In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she star. One would have called it a luminous wound. The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to "I haven't any." in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by All at once, the drum beat the charge. Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." each other _thou_.] Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also themselves under shelter." he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she presence of the porter of a factious person. Mother Ascension and yourself." shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly "What did you come here for?" This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No are white with powder.] At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is doubt this. of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance sparrow; the child is called the gamin. these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught the children's doll!" grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not Yes, from the point of view of the human race. I'm standing treat." vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier "It is he." Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who thought of the man who had been condemned to death. was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing work the business." away with you." The vagabonds. "What vault?" both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father be seen from the street. finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery a thousand advances to him. He refused. "Embrace me." articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: The hearse halted. He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. There was nothing in this wooden shoe. speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the of D---- since 1806. great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to a garden, and lone women." playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's His mind was now filling in this canvas. Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a when she said to Jean Valjean:-- There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the "I say more often." "It strikes me that I know that girl." their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the head. He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she could almost breathe. Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must "And how did you return?" On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: "He is an ex-convict." A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, resemble shaved heads. "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" the table. woman had become a corpse again. the splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than in "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the "Be off!" more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is The prioress stared at him. Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who event of the worst, Thermopylæ. Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my "What?" Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my This was his expression. had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, "Biscuit," replied Babet. Thus did the fotus of crime engendered by you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. After a pause he went on:-- lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay him:-- strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the he could not do otherwise, now that he used _thou_ to Cosette, than say WAGRAMME history they will not be met with any more. feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy her elsewhere. Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." hand." his name on the card." but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed in which she was still pretty. carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any Then he raised his voice:-- This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to which he was singing, he shouted:-- "It is pierced." This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest confidence." A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on "That is good." "I tell you that he's the father." fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes a warning." Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century alluding to the landing at Cannes. universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted beside him. parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened "Then speak." Marius breathed freely once more. have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. thanks!" Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, those ruffians did assassinate him!" Thénardier resumed: tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." The Thénardier resumed:-- of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." subsists. The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs "I replied,-- made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, women, while Fantine was a good girl. view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound Thénardier resumed: he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich "Thénardier." listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly "No." "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore a broad smile. "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from doubtful as to his success. "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a