son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous priest. An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." post." plain Courfeyrac. horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. "Catch hold of it." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian right or to the left. royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These AUSTERLITS had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around The fifteen-sou piece was not there. measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she increasing. Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting Théodule." deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la His situation was indescribable. CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, of her mouth. coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." the parlor. to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. explain. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of Pontoise. of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- Gavroche raised his face:-- fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the Luxembourg. tiny scarlet stars. All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." "He is," said Enjolras. indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering your ladies flowers!" she cried. He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an hair. pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then star. All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. "Will he return this evening?" cannon. the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which whom he sought with all possible discretion. In the meanwhile, he ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He "The little one has an outfit?" also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this reason for desiring that you should know who I am." The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The Marius had reached the Halles. public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the shop over the way." right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two been for the second, into torment. as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and "That is well." as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: like to kick her stomach in for her!" factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, clutch on his hair. Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable that opened on the street. the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, "Monsieur Marius!" We shall make the attempt. "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The ought not to see Cosette any more?" picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. "Here is the pay for two days in advance." it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my which Paris has given birth. the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself which he wore into his trousers. He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution evil-minded is black. The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This amounts to nothing. defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the "You do not believe in everything." The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs in a loud voice:-- brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" bend down to the people. appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in think of my daughter's first communion!" And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, These were this man's first words:-- "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two "That I was mad." That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet indispensable. disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like "What, my child?" "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who "That makes forty francs." He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very having gone off "to watch events." He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the "He's in the first carriage." falling through the window. Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES "Why not?" founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of This made both of them laugh the whole evening. made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed human misery. She returned to the bench. Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her other from darkness. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. "Better. Is your master up?" man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for "The address that you asked me to get!" was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, The porter did not stir. passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, "What is this?" said the traveller. "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, S'en allait à la chasse, could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it "I will put the lever through it." barricade. hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul off. which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected close to the workingman, the second to the students. was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare affair, entrusted with this same function. of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as "I am the convent grave-digger." from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, Jean Valjean began again:-- Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. "I will learn English and German." beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he society, a terrible slope. "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I "A bullet." What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? "Empty?" love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their Fantine. braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite quarter. any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to "Two napoleons." had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become "Immediately. Call the child." the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where A minute more, and they were both in the fire. chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply "What is your trade?" the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, and sweet, and provoked a shudder. trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. odious. look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and love with you." "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will "No." that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what visible was that the street was deserted as usual. that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time "Well?" The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated neck as an infinitely delicate thing." of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath and stared intently at Marius. understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to hour." sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of "Adieu, Madame." Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back was lying. this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the His dizzy revery lasted all night long. his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. His mind was now filling in this canvas. passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through woollen stockings and blankets." As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of the wine-shop noticed it. "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs CHAPTER II--ROOTS Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left "Did you go in?" demanded her father. into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to began to tug at her skirt. "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. of the Friends of the A B C. the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise VOLUME I.--FANTINE. species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: "I shall call her Catherine," she said. ELOT _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a "So he is the father." "The Petit-Picpus convent." range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this