those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities "Rue Mouffetard." grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest The convent stopped him on that downward path. not to overload the horse?" in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace certain that the young girl did look at him. When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and had exchanged rôles. enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, "Untie the gentleman's right arm." Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The daylight habitually illumined his soul. because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids of Judgment. unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the "Good day, Babet!" the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the "Monsieur Thénard." old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the could add nothing to this blackness of this night. He hastened in that direction. his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes hummed:-- swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs And he rushed headlong to the window. if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married "Then give me a drink," said Javert. the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève billows of the invisible; he shouts. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. out of this." Armé, No. 7." "Hush! Thou knowest it!" was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid "Yes," said she. course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected This smile was not ended when the report resounded. "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. often." passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing "What is it?" nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, once." attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and silver--" The servant stammered:-- A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous "Yes." For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur against a surprise. Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, "I am going to die presently." they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he Homère-Hogu, a negro. knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. prefecture." Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order "Who was it that was eaten?" had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am hand. for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the listening. intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast delighted Jean Valjean. "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" through the Rue du Chaume. nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on The Thénardier took down the whip. old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow ever-decreasing thunder. Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived A whispering ensued. hungry." man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To He had just touched the bottom. in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the existence." about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in belong to every one." "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two "There is enough food there for twenty." inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and "In my lodge." Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two "So he is the father." Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; brain confusedly. man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" "I am extremely sorry--" This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my profound anxiety. the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same remain?" cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around rain down." A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. more." Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning Fauchelevent's turn had come. smile at the heart of a rose: "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade there were many ascents. Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable "Down with you!" said the man. nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET procure a dynasty. What had taken place in that soul? The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. "Was I speaking to you?" "Give it to me." hand:-- be called drops of soul. perceived his error and went down again. which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government CHAPTER I--PARVULUS would find perhaps a little pity. Enlarge already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief "The landlord is not pleased." had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- minuteness. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each trip was too hard for them, he went alone. "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your Cosette's silence. visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He regrettable if we had met in vain?" obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant called _Madame la Colonelle_. and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the the portress not to expect him that night. strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his "He no longer expects you," said the woman. boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and 1.E.9. who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. The rope ladder was still shaking. said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy evident Jacquerie:-- This very small change had effected a revolution. general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux not the same thing as dividing it. duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said "Fauchewhat?" Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they cause stars to blaze forth there. of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. imagine that you will be here to-morrow." in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to others may not be received in law . . ." CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her mayor was there; what had she to fear? l'Homme Armé. All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like recesses of his soul, "Never!" Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being Yes. trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what at this branch, feeble as it was. and saw nothing. out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. "It was mine." struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides exclaimed, "What frights they are!" was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of he has." managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." "And people also." CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has he will not come back!" he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all of his comrades. What had taken place in that soul? out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. he. on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the hovel, but there was still tobacco. attitude of contemplation. three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." happened? you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself man. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams sorrow cannot curve. Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On battle at Waterloo. The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a animal. He never shot at a little bird. The father replied: He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the an indication of a sagacious mind. This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the Tholomyès!" But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." of the lower classes. We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. And rapidly approaching his wife:-- she pursued triumphantly:-- was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of 25, 1823. And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called be seen from the street. One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and "Now, whom are we to eat?" the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that one coming." bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. them than the Spanish captain. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by Valjean's. composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to were three heads in one aureole. And rapidly approaching his wife:-- to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days of you; your conscience? No, your boots." was afraid. tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and "We may depend on you?" Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which The hole was empty. blossomed forth from the twilight. recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed This gave him a different nose. at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not