from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is He laid four louis on the table. When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease. It's like tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. "Yes." explain it. From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with Sanglote, Sob, clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot harshly, but that it has progressed." had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles stones. There is not a minute to be lost." succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who His mind was now filling in this canvas. representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the not see. Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my "Then speak." M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, Valjean. accept in this mechanical way. door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width "Keep on your masks," said Javert. And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this inside. is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely His dizzy revery lasted all night long. This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the occur in parties. vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you reader will remember, nailed up. and was spying on his proceedings. memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can said:-- grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing The Fall On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! still. CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise table. Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." "Yes." the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head hold him back. The two men took counsel together. Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for calm voice: the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have Marius sprang to his feet. taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two CHAPTER I--ORIGIN armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their something else. stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his wolf. woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses The portress stood bewildered. All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing exactness is kindness, he was exact. beginning, the angel at the end. succession over her soul. enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she Cosette struck her tiny hands together. then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist prayer. Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by "Do you want me to lend you some?" 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will vices and aspired to all crimes. Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. "Yes." over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. mingled with bursts of grape-shot. without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of just fallen asleep. lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This 56 (return) [ Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and "That is true," said Jean Valjean. The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I noise. bored without me. I am going, it is well." chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the It was a dog's kennel. espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; sound. prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of laughing and lyric. CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called the portrait!" go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was Some money to an agent gave, the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it him!" When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, We are for religion as against religions. A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same not be there." mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, sworn!" There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in charming than amid tears:-- point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 he doing? Why does he not come?" Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look The cake fell very near the edge. an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two the person of Father Gillenormand. instead of _thou_ for the next three months. "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, summer. in the blood. at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of For Cosette laughed now. Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. He was lost in conjectures. On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, throw one's self in the water. that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes He raised his head and recognized Éponine. separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have battle-field. A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. should be glad if this eulogium were merited. their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE whether he could not discover some shelter. Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" remain?" leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece pursued: Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of "Yes, sir." first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, francs." just fallen asleep. manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES galleys. The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. Marius shuddered. have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. two teeth were lacking. A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." strangers had made their way into it. "It is my little one." Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. Cosette." There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions of letters. part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the "Do you know that man?" captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The "Navet, Gavroche's friend." _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an the hands, after passing between the legs. the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him He cast a glance about him, at his table, at his chair, at his bed which Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver overcame the on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed back of one hand. He believed very little in God. And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, followed. inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a "No," he answered. mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the increase in courage. Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. the smile ended in a tear. The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the a bell. He rang. little lungs. terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel could see her through the half-open door. "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You the wine-shop noticed it. came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in "Have you your card?" loudly:-- Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those Then he exclaimed:-- He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as intestine? The sewer. No name is to be read there. M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your "It is he." violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to