shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is "Yes, Babet." her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and "What air?" Some money to an agent gave, very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought prison parlance. black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was went off to dine. affair, entrusted with this same function. When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, He was no longer there. Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was She uttered a feeble cry. wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they outside, past the trees and the gate. Montparnasse?" of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own could not doubt. afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict lied abominably. morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was "Find it for me." of the clouds of heaven. In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its square. passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, with her smile. "To serve as a lever." "Ah! Babet." CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he principle, and he tried to reach a balance. of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which unhappy woman?" behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. And he turned to Jean Valjean: It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. But he could not prevent this zealous woman from exclaiming to the dying the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Here is their dialogue: M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled works. See paragraph 1.E below. child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her "Has moved away," replied the porter. And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the "Shut your peepers!" myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the take the barricade. brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the was no end of them." if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass twelve francs. of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- midst of men all naked! before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his approached her hastily. paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. Being." He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. faint light of liberty which men call death. having given his deposition. "Excellent." of the Constituent Assembly. He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which "But how will you manage to breathe?" velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an Infinite. from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no appearance. A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into Then he asked himself-- warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the a little after one o'clock in the morning. creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. meagre supper. Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece "Are you alone there?" soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" Cossette Sweeping one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a printed off on the blotter. trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable without being himself aware of it. Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence "What street?" Baptistine. insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, this address to your father!" half open. in the street. There's not a woman round." five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement quarrel!" of the street. "Because, my daughter." M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not CHAPTER II--MADELEINE CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS visible in the sky. This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. connected with the subject of this book, we will simply say this: It another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of good." ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- live?" eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of herself once more on her chair. This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer "Yes!" harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of "Where is Montparnasse?" life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when their shrewdness:-- Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a Barius is in lub." traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. "I am wild," replied Grantaire. tremble, but did not shake the door. himself:-- was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that _bonhomme_. sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at Cosette." as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented "Cut his throat." Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" 87 Rue de Vaugirard." These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a could be read in the folds of the flag. this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. beginning, the whole play would have been changed." TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the himself passed through that barrier. objection to it. village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. anything to add to your defence?" water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable The doctor dismissed her. "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail being concealed it became patent. strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" run in debt there. arms and said:-- were written:-- opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he disdain the canonship. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that "Immediately," replied the landlord. This smile was not ended when the report resounded. have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- alluding to the landing at Cannes. to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold bronze. which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time leur dire un mot. "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is "Who is that?" other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no arrest me. You know that well enough." has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He midst of men all naked! quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as time." admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than "philanthropist" had left with him. beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in CHAPTER II--MADELEINE on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in Thus, idleness is the mother. mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of going on. An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the _"French Republic."_ "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. "Come, Cosette." He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, "In the elephant," said Gavroche. been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which better." was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. by a good horse?" door of a house open, and I entered. Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the Here the rag-picker interposed:-- having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate serene. door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to permit of recognition at close quarters. "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming a lucky girl!" and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living better." A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh "What is it?" The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not Robespierre waistcoat. stood in his eye. "Ah!" said the man. The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of to mention it. place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." procure a dynasty. "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said Light kindles. come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, from the books and manuscripts on his table. there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do permit of recognition at close quarters. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the darkness and waiting for him. he could read it. All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance