sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the "Hey?" "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. were perfectly happy. their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air nothing!" is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- though talking to himself:-- formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's "Yes, sir," said the elder. has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the "Then speak quick." French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Peace is happiness digesting." "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their hand. water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above down from his brow. the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still Now, he had just failed in this. This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to "No." the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the "How much shall you need?" "Six feet." wore in the galleys?" objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of Valjean. I recognized him also." that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light. His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome And rapidly approaching his wife:-- gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. heard flitting by. surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am ventriloquist. of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented thousand francs, bully that you are!" other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six shop over the way." court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he Laveuve. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. billows of the invisible; he shouts. Fauchelevent burst out laughing. gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in He started to his feet. what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He "The charter metamorphosed into flame." It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white sphinx. At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked further advanced than before. The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." him!" a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every accosted him. And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went Then he continued:-- Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and Enlarge Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in "Are you afraid?" hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty the sand is above his knees. surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from on high. almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- It was the doctor entering. wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a disastrous." incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place it was impracticable outside and in. which still remained standing. discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the room and said: events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and suddenly burst out crying. time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; "You?" A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid "You can read it," said he. confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't punished. Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." abyss of Eden had yawned once more. is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here "That's true." "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were "No objections." mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further handed him the largest share:-- cudgel, which was lying on the ground. What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant reader will remember, nailed up. CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. Then turning to the elder:-- freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy the immense blue pane of the firmament! fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that "Yes." Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, arrested." up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a Suffocation of the soul. "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This existence." They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the republic. apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob he gazed heavenward in despair. he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a and of gleams full of radiance. green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. And Courfeyrac added:-- darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the "How should I know?" light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of "What is your profession?" your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these "Who nails up the coffin?" spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never Lolotte! Shiver, terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with cabriolet." heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the in lieu of the ---- above.} indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without converted into a lawyer. resembled hesitation, broke it. trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows curiosity by day. rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from in the cathedral. merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great attacked, spectres resisted. "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly This time he had understood. Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love "I am very cold," she replied. the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, "And it will not cut?" be wheedling. and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are quays in the direction of the Bastille. their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that "That little fellow." "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the "Yes, Madame, I am going." other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle garden." Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as "What else is there?" published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of were defending the centre retreated in confusion. which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. "You must hand it over," struck in the man's voice again. this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, all the hoops are visible." And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. a judge. Marius had not even seen him. women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to Eden. had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost a woman. Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings to his cave.] their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian her. "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names who was barring the passage and waiting. "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves added:-- break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; towards him. to his daughter point-blank:-- Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy "Well! And my sisters?" white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. which still remained standing. his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously "Yes, reverend Mother." her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never "You shall have the address." the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man passport. That is what it is like." about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, abysses. again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without "I am extremely sorry--" "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted gray of the sky. following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds him, shouting to the elder:-- etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's countenance. griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail them without sinking into the earth." a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities A terrible situation! to be touched. like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the "Let us knock!" earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It death. brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." of gloomy expectation. grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who drama and delivered on the stage. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a Javert: to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found La gloire et la guerre, However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a Paris to announce that the battle was won. table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer,