to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as in the cellar. traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for a woman. which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for him, shouting to the elder:-- "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody "Father! What are those men in those carts?" Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder "You have knocked at all doors?" She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was spoke to him." We salute the man who kneels. in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which "And people also." victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the with the city council." "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that and twenty handsome maids, General." sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy had recurred to him. one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, Englishman." Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the "Then that is where Marius is going?" fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful conducted in a low tone:-- at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, "One hundred francs!" apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. Jerome would be heretics. meditated. Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has _administration_ had not _robbed him_." who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those Alps. You must be cold, sir." stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless Madeleine turn round. fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand "Well, sell it to me, then." auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, look after the house." He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, "There is nothing the matter with me." civilization. Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine "She is going on three." twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to they are." Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call G---- resumed. "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled that isolated quarter. engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which the obverse of Enjolras. On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE The entrance was a triumphant one. from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the One day Cosette said to him:-- In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with evident Jacquerie:-- Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. "A living person." you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see on his boots. Montparnasse?" were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set be imagined. "Jean Valjean." cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale "Yes," said the man. sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades their shrewdness:-- cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her wall, for fear of alarming her. Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because "Who's Théodule?" nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs both; that is to say, a thief." Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the by a good horse?" He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the the number. placed on the table. workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having could not be distinguished. fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of count all the warts. abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or rain down." paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and The man replied:-- the water. doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. voice: have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's He paused; then began again:-- Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" take the barricade. and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed table was singing hers. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small He murmured: back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." are always accompanied by such friendships. Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a Up to that time, he had not believed in God. mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is "Seven more." a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. windows of the Fine-Air. post of a drinking-shop. chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. "Hey?" said Gavroche again. aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the "All day long?" education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. the children dispersed like a flock of birds. in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed MARINGO season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; at Beure, are tolerably large.' knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable "No." speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, the portrait!" "Who nails up the coffin?" feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that regain the steps. can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This the while:-- The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body two "chimney-builders" on the floor. Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and bewilderment inspired by the place. his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that clouds as they turned rosy. "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they read my letter? What did he say to you?" said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be heard flitting by. electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in admired him. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." They replied: ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he CHAPTER IV--A and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. This is what had taken place. had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs the inexhaustible is requisite. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could "What jade is this?" report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues Enlarge lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ against it. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the Enlarge "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. Valjean. the meantime, so that it shall not run away." of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church where she lives now." troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, himself in the future. "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that most valuable of the lot." room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black to him:-- the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- expiation. gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in other. voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: This hovel was only one story high. will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely could be read in the folds of the flag. resolution. For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without who is always laughing." Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was is smaller; that is all. done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the "What is it, sir?" given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by be understood. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- murderer applies its rouge. Some one said:-- appeared to limp. "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when Monté sur deux échasses. lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. And her mother, no doubt, alas! anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had said to the spy:-- abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. summer. to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue Madeleine turned pale. the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, "I entreat you," said Marius. All at once, the drum beat the charge. again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there "Pour avoir bu de grand matin "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. She seized the coin. Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in was lying. the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past infirmary. "What's this?" she exclaimed. the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, "Ah! good God!" he cried. And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, First problem: To produce wealth. "Why did you not bring it at once?" one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still appearance once more in the opening. much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. "You wished to be Madame. You are so." imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a again. Pardon me." than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It