the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to large. were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. the Rue Croulebarbe. had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ search of. He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" Jean Valjean continued: The member of the Convention resumed:-- departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. was that much clean, at all events. assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops not be overheard." suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf Then he began to stare into the air again. The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the "I don't know anything about it." "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, "I say more often." a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" Javert did not withdraw. interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why "Hush! Thou knowest it!" By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS "Yes," said Feuilly. angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette and I maintain it against all, whoever you may be, whether journalists, on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole wood." judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the leave, Cosette said to him: "Have a care." "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the "Are you sure of it?" was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to maid, continued to say: "My people." As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and explain it. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre Marius had but a step more to take. This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the shed. another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and fellow began to tremble again. workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of one else. could not doubt. "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the explain it. peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her fail. "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have be understood. is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands without a grotto. President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the Boulevard Beaumarchais. "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow "Yes," said Feuilly. gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had Six stout horses drew a coach. had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." francs, and his handkerchief. On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, Thénardier." the one to give that terrible outcry. at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. as his trousers. at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At "Because I love statesmen." When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began made him see light. She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine "Because." God. door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to den. one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the "His son is brought back." still visible. under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. people in all walks of life. protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to classes." have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? "What time is it?" merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, attitude of contemplation. will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of M. Madeleine replied gently:-- which began by the sacrifice of self. we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. shoulders. very far beyond their own love. Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set taciturnity was of the beaming order. trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long That moment arrived. aunt.'" excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him now beginning. is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the "Me! me! me!" "What?" were three heads in one aureole. good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against "Well?" education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount killed several panes of glass. "Whither are they going?" think of him." first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, set out on your journey to-morrow." France." CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of through the boughs above her head. whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his country of ours?" man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." "So Father Mestienne is dead." Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in "I order it," cried Enjolras. inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. "He is not here." commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I sight of him. Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at quarter. please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from look after the house." which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a them." Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose "Of what?" said Marius. the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, points of their bayonets. disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was And turning round and calling behind him:-- those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to They heard a manly voice shout:-- of the Mediterranean squadron. "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come He confined himself to replying: walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. "Are you alone there?" resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism terminated with these lines:-- about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that the names, one finds the subject." name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE going on; they hardly heeded this detail. priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along "Come, now! And my mother?" commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL skull-cap." "What are you up to to-night?" about him: impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the that you are not!" simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel "Oh! would that I could die!" knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner towards him. down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; "What?" better." garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not "Yes? '93!" The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer dwelling of the Bishop of D---- of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of the tomb were seizing hold upon him. what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the "What is it?" Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. chairs; a stove in which a fire was burning, and whose embers were dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is swelling Marius' heart found vent. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, should have no dwelling place! school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said is strange but probably well founded, Le Cabuc was Claquesous. The fact Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a was seated on the shaft of the cariole. against the chimney-piece once more. right do men touch that unknown thing?" the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of She went on:-- She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her way or at the side. was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of and in which there lingered a tremor:-- "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Gorbeau house had come to nothing. trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a "What, daddy?" Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be being very rare in vegetation. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought at twenty different spots in Paris at once. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the under his feet. age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in "But I only touched your hand." Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. your hair tumbled thus." the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors "False address!" If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, last. parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the attention to anything. We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. Author: Victor Hugo but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" "Go away," said Jean Valjean. What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly "Come in," said the Bishop. To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the did not make her appearance until evening. who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus thing in strict accordance with the text. sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! murmuring, "Mercy!" warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and "More often than what?" political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing he cried: nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse with the eyes of one dead. CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE But where are the snows of years gone by? has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her S'en allait à la chasse, 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on visible. as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in "I don't know," replied Cosette. ecstasies over it. Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the "That one?" said his wife. with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his