they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would generally close at six o'clock." While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, his back to the light, let him have his way. dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on assailed it with a burst of irony. Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is "Mathematically!" has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and that it searched. in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful "How does one get it?" water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. catastrophes. merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and "worked for his living and stole"? bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. down from his brow. child." Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, Then he exclaimed:-- flatter Moses. beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his "And Panchaud." creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the father. know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and "You are sure?" was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment that this is what would happen to you." head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. no doubt. full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old A man entered. a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom that spy?" executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you "You have company this evening, no doubt." bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every M. Leblanc took the pen. for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town icy perspiration stood in beads. It was time that this vast man should fall. CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor "Say, now." "Plague take it!" mistaking me for some other person." which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. And again she said to him:-- "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW of rock. of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been "Be quick about it!" The porter raised his head and said:-- "Certainly there is," said the old woman. inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on WRONG vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market chariot drawn by marine monsters. "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the "He will die," said the porter. feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of den. gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from Enlarge did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of Enlarge here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which "I think that I never had any." In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in brazier. actually followed them. mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married "Yes." How odd you are!" A man entered. He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. Marius had reached the Halles. "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right minuteness. carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in INDIA "What church?" M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a An instant later Cosette entered the public room. right or to the left. "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, He has just taken his departure." the wounds themselves. down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for "Grub away." had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give "There is only one thing left to do." heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. his labors too soon. should be glad if this eulogium were merited. leading to the nuns' corner. roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: authority buttoned to the chin. times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and "What other case?" of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending "There's no bridegroom in that trap." of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, J'aime mieux ma mère!"