on these wounds. It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and smouldering there in a melancholy way. It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU quitted his room. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not "Give it to me all the same." very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The the mendicant on the highway:-- "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, The married pair disappeared. generally close at six o'clock." rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her and pitiless shame. life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his one in the town had heard hitherto:-- at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of "--tine. What next?" become absorbed in his reflections. And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, M. Madeleine preserved silence. The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. Valjean's tranquillity. When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, "I entreat you," said Marius. that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was "In a hackney carriage." pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a First problem: To produce wealth. would have remained undecided. Jean Valjean selected the broadest, that said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old giant. Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. Thénardier continued:-- is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. "Things." seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your you!" neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" understood the book. called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to Nothing stirs. his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" "Monsieur--" "Come, now! the surprise?" Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an as much as possible. "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable BRUJON, 1811. would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. the window. Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère La gloire et la guerre, he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive "There!" said Guelemer. presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation "Empty?" saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded "It's my move." earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society tell me one hundred and nine francs?" sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished naturalize indigo in France. alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a of the tap-room. streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" "I got them," replied Fantine. four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity look about you," said Favourite to her. wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet slope of the redoubt, into his basket. washing in the "lavatory." This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, cardinal. Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" regrettable if we had met in vain?" "I shall die three hours hence." recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, the inexhaustible is requisite. "He is dead." resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred wretched that I will part with it." me. Such a thing cannot be refused." Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the "Monsieur Marius, if you please." "I am paying attention." they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him "But she will hear." it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. happiness within, results social prosperity. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the come from us." but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. Paris to announce that the battle was won. of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing "Grub away." without a grotto. Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth again. "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" "Father! What are those men in those carts?" At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of country and had been there before. little. and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, answered himself calmly:-- doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes "Yes." It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence those ruffians did assassinate him!" coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly id="linknoteref-25">25 opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented Jean Valjean searched his pockets. He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" "What?" Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" you so." "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy here? It is a mistake." with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. "Twenty-three francs!" That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to of the elephant:-- disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: down. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are "O modesty!" said Marius. a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries respect. made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation apostrophized Théodule:-- "To the Cadran-Bleu." Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first it!" "It is a continuation of her slumber." Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it Frontispiece Volume Two them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. dagger made its appearance. above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining These men left to political parties the question of rights, they cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they destiny beside these two happy beings? indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two to himself that this monster existed. curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also dressed in men's clothes. whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening "Why not to-day?" to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped Théodule." Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since and leaning on the table. "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." Thereupon he set out again on a run. bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. To-morrow will be peace. "Well?" man of prey reappeared. invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he say." appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret finger on this compartment and said:-- He wrote:-- character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well "No. In lowering the coffin." emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs back? speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old impelled to accost that child. drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, was speaking aloud. absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the Marius:-- on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who breathing, a prey to her thoughts. saluting her as Madame la Baronne. and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the Jean Valjean remained silent. he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. "By the way, have you any political opinions?" attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went The man resumed his writing. astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a "That Javert committed suicide." CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE heroes who win renown. holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. remember! You don't see who I am?" a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What Cosette: the key." coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone Enlarge keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this respectable old man. hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of to attach it. admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius It was the Jondrette girl. of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was the heights in the direction of Frischemont. For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue "Swear one thing to me!" Marius exclaimed:-- yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of where she spoke ill of her daughter. again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of one would have said that he saw some one. material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to "You will see." "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years "Give it to me all the same." He confined himself to replying: Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell "Give it to me." The Jondrette entered. emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there "I am." feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It limped a little:-- Enlarge Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the