will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these the horizon. designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are charming hour with which grand passions begin. interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" "Yes." the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, Parliament. other, and probably a volume of the same romance. darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. does not prevent them from being of use. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de to see a lancer enter one's chamber. space of fifteen years. the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. of the air, like trees and stones. something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic bosom. them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE future, be exact." his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is "Who will prove that to me?" age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING "We haven't the time." chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line was transfigured into Christ. cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale bees. At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are "Father--" is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du "Fifty." twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on "What have you come here for?" "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well its neck. "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" She returned to the bench. hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. is it?" you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How "What is it, sir?" "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the "When the vault is open--" "Six o'clock precisely." to the police. indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. adventure. For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this Here a fresh crisis declared itself. embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had "By whom?" without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do ----- faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and says Molière. homeless children who could pass through it. have I done?" "I don't want your money," said she. Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He summer. served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in She obeyed. Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor every one speaks. The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" "What shall we have for dinner?" One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he Then turning to the elder:-- very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul knocker and rapped. heroes who win renown. They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, hungry." lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long an indication of a sagacious mind. took place. There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small There are six of you; I represent the whole world." Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: home." appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there other. between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not "What beastly weather!" said he. "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty grand events of small districts had taken place. And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, oozing walls,--what declaimers! From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the "White!" said he. All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.