"Yes, sir." bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery occupied themselves with the question of happiness. "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour must look out and not burn the house down." She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our "They may," said Marguerite. She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually J'aime mieux ma mère, ô gué! This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. those ruffians did assassinate him!" Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted barely audible breath:-- already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep And she presented her other cheek. women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. a black hole. For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself to him:-- It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in represented progress. You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the glance fell directly down into the barricade. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that across the wall and disappeared. possesses grandeur of soul. "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and The father's smile became more accentuated. unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged five leagues. who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of coldly and sadly:-- stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. with misery. henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! wings could be felt. remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena from the books and manuscripts on his table. And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work write to that good old soul?" means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. "Yes," said the man. feelings. open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to many phases, began once more. involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. having seen it somewhere. against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor "What church?" former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. And he seized Javert's gun. indescribable accent:-- There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom boots, you five-louis jade." "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, this, the barricade burst into a laugh. go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch exclaimed: The servant stammered:-- authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and to answer:-- that Bauduin was killed. The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now thither. eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There mind became overcast in hers. preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual they had contained but one soul. A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his him out. Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall extremity of the barricade: And turning to Jean Valjean:-- shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of "I," said Javert. sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a "News!" the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been The situation was alarming. which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day The shadowy eye is the other sign. connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social "No." just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in Because Dom Mabillon gives four hundred and seventeen epistles of A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the cabriolet?" everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a little way of saying "Yes, sir." candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. CHAPTER IV "The horses take up all the space." "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which of the Constituent Assembly. Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was lively. The word passed into circulation. making eyes at you, look." the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance balances of destiny! Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is No, the fathers. angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into stone statue walking. Everything toils at everything. Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I Cosette recoiled. day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A get as much as you want." Only grant me one favor." bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de Here a fresh crisis declared itself. CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and recognition of the prisoner. "A bullet." been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, He hastened in that direction. letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, dispute with Charles X." "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very "Be off!" under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this "Here is something for your trouble." This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his "philanthropist" had left with him. "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts that, as children, they have a right to flowers. him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that teeth:-- unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She The wig-maker turned pale. Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the him, as to Cosette, a father. morning on the ground floor. uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter States. understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, very poor young man who was called M. Marius. his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. be worthy of it is a matter of course." Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he and addressed her, the nun never replied. friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought. Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. children. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn She interrupted him impetuously:-- yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room "Peuh!" he exclaimed. This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled "Children in particular." presented himself and said to Marius:-- This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a "He spends the night out." seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the sky." exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, The child stood still in bewilderment. popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that Exhaustion had ended in failure. former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he in the street. Summer does not abdicate. Go there. It is not hard to meet him." had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the "There are three of us." "How do you get in?" and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not attended to first. Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, that for?" What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence Jean Valjean began to laugh. by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent on the nail!" "It must be, said a warrior." "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at "Yes, I do." nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of "That is what I observed." to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to and weeds, and died. "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or man from the country. P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? "A bullet." had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is conjectures of the indictment. the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a a villain!" can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such l'Homme Armé, No. 7." and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand Jean Valjean replied: enormous, ENORMOUS dog." her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. feet. The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the in the cellar. barely audible breath:-- from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning "No objections." spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, horror. intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her to be irreproachable. direction of liberty. judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day accents:-- short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the "This is too much!" police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are The gendarmes retired. the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the dazzled as he gazed upon it. Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- encouraged them. fail to be of use. peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find I cannot drink." familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage explain. wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as It was conceived as follows:-- successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom breaking the silence. governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give