effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an self-sacrifice be exacted? rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve arm on Sundays. also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this INDIA her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised much the worse for that head." the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" expedient of applying to the king. They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called Fauchelevent replied:-- the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, and the Pont de Jéna." Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four others. he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is "You are sure?" guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the plan of travel." sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the Yes, from the point of view of the human race. the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, "Expectations?" When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" and from every cloud? on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let from father to son. affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. me," she said. "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." "Down with you!" said the man. coachman under the knees. your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. completed the bar across the street. Frontispiece Volume Four certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a "I wish to surprise him." grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's "Because you are a woman and a child." Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. out of this." "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was pair. details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs vague and sleepy smile. the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment homeless children who could pass through it. condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also he gazed heavenward in despair. "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already and I will explain myself." CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach strangers had made their way into it. "Why?" and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with understand any of the peals?" Jean Valjean listened. regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red waiting for you." fail. of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that falling through the window. to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of Thus, idleness is the mother. quite disappeared from his face. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the Jean Valjean was not dead. it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the was. Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through "Where is Montparnasse?" conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from circumstances. As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother returned to Paris. tone of Nicolette. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, "Monsieur--" "One hundred francs!" clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and moment when nudity becomes indecent. the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either thanked the traveller. descend. He turned to the left. On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was sentence, and you cannot take an oath." _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty "Yes, sir." The fifteen-sou piece was not there. tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. society. hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." knocking." been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, cudgel. It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to little lungs. he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he Pontoise. principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I A glance had wrought all this. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of "I know him." cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies in it:-- lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."