men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a which opened on the back yard. cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke Laveuve. Valjean. It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH poet. inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted "Yes, I do." Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. "Quin?" The eldest girl grumbled:-- money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly "Unless it's the old fellow." all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent right." closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale this, the barricade burst into a laugh. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, dead. soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does have a fire." In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp blanket, and an alcove with curtains. pettifogging, I beg of you." hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. mother, but I have claws like a woman." "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had grave resembled her bed. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It and wild triumph. Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and delighted Jean Valjean. idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come "Enter, my good man." he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These same spirit. Love, soar. them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her "He did not answer my question." decided on. Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what household. "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of quite as much. hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a Silence fell again. become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. Courfeyrac's door. the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you blind. was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he a frightened air. He continued:-- When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of "Adorable!" he exclaimed. La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any this time all had come. felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, grandeur of Æschylus! its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, conversation:-- He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down going? Why are they thus? walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the The man followed him. can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, of Paradise. unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in precaution as though he had stolen it. the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended the immense revolutionary coach. vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the class-room through which he was passing. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not humanity." the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he I have the honor to salute you with respect. on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had and a good fill!" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that gazed upon with joy. this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. should be governed only by science." de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. Marius continued: He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict waiting for thee. Come with confidence." that isolated quarter. "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- fellow there?" CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied The man gave a start and raised his eyes. master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a The Grandeurs of Despair and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion breath. poultry.] white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, and threw them at the men. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. All at once he paused. million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- added. Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the was overwhelmed. forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN starting up once more. sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who were written:-- bade you let her go?" mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never She was still trembling. discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had be worthy of it is a matter of course." soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that of its pavement, the four uniforms. himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. silence. And he added with dignity:-- but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- "How is that poor woman?" on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the "Then content yourself with obeying." "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR And the mother's pale face grew radiant. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je song then so popular:-- It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood "Hey?" the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good "So do we." your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of one except in the evening." Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- Jean Valjean began again:-- On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should truly magnanimous man, coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by Animaux_. angle of the Corinthe building. disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French "aren't you going to take your doll?" from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. in a lightning flash, the people and God. the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the "Le roi Coupdesabot dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING them unanswered. "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, in order not to have his feet in the water. facing them in front. man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say He was decidedly terrified. of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still windows of the third story. you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," She returned to the bench. sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the "That horse is very much fatigued." New Building, but that he was still in great danger. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" Then he turned fully round towards Marius: thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; "Patience," replied Tholomyès. that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. "No splashing of the wounded," he said. "But you alone should hear it--" Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed had recurred to him. rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised "He was." your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as very earth. He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of which he was singing, he shouted:-- was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of "Why not?" An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years takes off his hat. All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant It was here that Jean Valjean stood. young. light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to terrible. Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine A very sweet life began for him. is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became abnegation. He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an cart. "It embarrasses me," said she. under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers one feels that one is falling? The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the "Smile." The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and tutu, pointed hat!] If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the "I do not know what you mean." contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the traverse. The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to his head several times in succession. and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here "Business first." Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a this manner she reached the spring. consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole That master good Clermont-Tonnerre He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. he could read it. memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green forty thousand francs. for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:--