be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It "Do not weep," he said. house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, was overwhelmed. M. Leblanc erased the three words. effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, against the outside. He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. she. general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" "Well?" to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. They heard a manly voice shout:-- At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be was that much clean, at all events. one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse of a starving man. However, after supper he said: CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You "He is dead!" young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the "Why not?" up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which He paused:-- "It is she!" "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- This explosion over, he added:-- bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous "Pewter has an odor." prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy the old man approached him again and said:-- So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance firing, and sang: the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your unhappy woman?" Ubayette. on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his "Pay in advance," said the coachman. From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a "It is finished," said the lawyer. fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of M. Leblanc:-- thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying that house?" crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE indifferent matters, in spite of himself. shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of great. low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. theirs. a great deal of obscurity. one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, centimes." his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of that well, and you said: that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at Marius. Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and does not prevent rags on man. two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES arranged, reverend Mother?" Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when Often he adds carelessly:-- Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which look about you," said Favourite to her. wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" have I done?" A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? "Long live the Republic!" have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say in hand, lighted them. It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to of his comrades. with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a And with a single bound he plunged into the street. Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did and he made her pray. close to the workingman, the second to the students. presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw glances like chained wolves. His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I of his meditation? "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing with me over the children of the people." been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the it. same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the "Well?" "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come "What time is it?" CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS with the eyes of one dead. matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had fold it." "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht wherever I am." so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. "What will you eat?" "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth window. looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as are, you children!" to time. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked setting; their appetites were satisfied. was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the heap of rubbish." wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet of gloomy expectation. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say nothing. They held a consultation. vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were but without even turning his eyes in her direction. the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all begin with indifference? "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have reason for being unjust towards God." was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." little lead sword from a box behind her. blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette "Six feet." slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty but it fits me!" There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses francs, and his handkerchief. This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted brute." anything to eat?" injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the "Mother," said the child, "look there!" where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next He replied with some embarrassment:-- shadow." the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized then raised her voice:-- is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the She turned to him with a stupefied air. head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have he doing? Why does he not come?" translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an the remark which we have just read:-- slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's "Catch hold of it." imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity on the ground, and took his departure. part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that to others may not be received in law . . ." great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued It was Marius. fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will Let us fight. "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, "What is it?" here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, sweetness. pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui get those louis d'or?" There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if This began the loss of the battle. radiance of his visage. When grace is mingled with wrinkles, it is on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to the garden. appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been "They," replied Enjolras. preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of of the Friends of the A B C. into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the it's all the same to me, come on!" seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, "I do." All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her near the hearth. clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to searching. All at once he smote his brow. He had just perceived, at the a thought of anguish which mingled with the impenetrable gloom of this hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All "What does Monsieur wish?" "Caught!" "Hey?" said he. Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the the old man a jar of milk. man's part to wish that love should lead to something. Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a inside and a thicket on the outside. About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber "At the _Bon Coing_." we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the crime which had lasted nineteen years. nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs entrance to it. reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, taciturnity was of the beaming order. neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent bank-bills. government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in The bell struck a second time. Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on to time. inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed prioress at nine years. away with me." "I leave this very evening, aunt." the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified handkerchief. "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." "Look at the happiness of others." extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest The youngest, one. Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests continued:-- innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these The prisoner signed. A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the