squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched "Come in," said the Bishop. "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. "It is the riots." and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed wolf. Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as actually followed them. the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, by Haydn. me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken Thénardier resumed: Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on "To sit on." these crossroads. logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 her. The good woman appeared as usual. which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could And she stopped. Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this shoulder of the good man and said not a word. Madeleine and Jean Valjean. seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am succession, and shaking them cautiously. the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without Rousseau." situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The without being himself aware of it. effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON "O! Sure!" had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an VOLUME III--MARIUS. from Vincennes. They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately In this bed Cosette was sleeping. one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as accents:-- He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were "Burst!" disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE and which was calling to him through the trees:-- gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to "Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent possesses six hundred thousand Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the disappeared. replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging this he wore knee-breeches and buckle shoes. He always thrust his hands one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in the wall. of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. The little fellow will grow up. for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow "Where?" interpolated the wheelwright. "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential himself to Laigle de Meaux. renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" Glorieux, a discharged convict. the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too Jean Valjean remained alone. tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the "Yes," said Feuilly. asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come Zi zi zi "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was "But who the deuce is he following?" shall be innocent. "What is your age?" Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this "There." Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry quarter. What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries "What else is there?" spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." are visible. quarter. the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over being:-- "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing Glorieux, a discharged convict. "This is too much! How is this?" the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another purple, flame-colored. innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with Marius reeled and said feebly:-- It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the barricade. this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. what was the nature of this emotion? "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one had been there:-- "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. Let us complete this exposition. expiration of two or three months she shook off her shame, and began to fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never windows of the Fine-Air. Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The hunchback_. running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow "Really!" said the Bishop. and a good fill!" Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed thing in strict accordance with the text. plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate Éponine turned to the five ruffians. eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread perceived his error and went down again. Cosette." It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? "Ah, the devil!" the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor's orders. Ney drew his was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really in the cathedral. peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he characters, with a pencil:-- A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, "A woman is never a man." to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations Thénardier replied coldly:-- consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes cartridges publicly to passers-by. to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where galleys. hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse blows. and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere l'Égyptienne. hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to "Here are the reds!" of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac is it?" of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated up to gaze were audible. love. "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les bewildered eye. in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind his gums. the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His accosted him. of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions The murmurs redoubled. "Yes," said the mother. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the She turned to him with a stupefied air. but without even turning his eyes in her direction. It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His Excellence of Misfortune To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while came." takes off his hat. "Thank you, sir," said the child. Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there called Mother Assumption. Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly "no." a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate hand and ran:-- traveller. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he "But, Mr. Mayor--" Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation "Really?" Cossette Sweeping spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage on high like the voice of the thunder. Enlarge girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the which diverted them greatly. You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the bedroom. CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre like that." which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing "Silver?" mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it who is always laughing." gnaw your heart this evening!'" preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. queer when you have had no food." The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in respect. illusions. He drew near to the Jondrette girl. l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have Gavroche replied:-- deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT draughts, as there are under the bridges." President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search the name of Azelma. chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been and which was saying to him:-- He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step added:-- to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like restore the deposit. Nothing more can be demanded of me. I complete the with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong piece stolen from the little Savoyard. and let us tear off the mask. The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of begin with indifference? similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. from infirmity. to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. is a saint!" "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was centimes." those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that He finished her thought. perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in "Yes, sir." equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper much as his cravat:-- CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and chamber." a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only which seemed to be calculations of distances. Her eyes were hollow and "My hands are benumbed." peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the all associated files of various formats will be found in: Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; it means prosper." "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for Jondrette replied sweetly:-- ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from with the dawn." In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute "A democrat-Bonapartist." The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of Mysterious incidents occurred. Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity and his new coat. great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, disastrous." the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring now beginning. He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. face like a flash from heaven in the winter. While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had "Was I speaking to you?" observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still times, by the deep breaths of eternity. After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. "Yes, sir." closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days mingled with bursts of grape-shot. was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- stir, or turn her head. He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew inexorable dignity: last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER "What's that?" cried the father. be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would