garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense "The charter metamorphosed into flame." "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that "But I can surely hire a horse in the village?" the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded la Perle. Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to "I have knocked at all doors." Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used and shouted into the corridor:-- darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. consent. We will drink. After work, never before." The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear "Why, what's the matter with her?" feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C much older than the other. "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, only bad cultivators." and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well door will not be opened again." curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming and exclaimed:-- had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his "Everything is as usual." Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a Titlepage Volume One about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really She was dead. I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of I could dance if any one wished it." Mabeuf. Night was falling. "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever table in a corner of the wall. the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment They had the air of being father and daughter. a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a His conscience; that is to say, God. shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of him and said:-- To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, "I know." gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer heavenward. _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer breast. that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois "Yes, the rats." emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a on its guard. The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with than Rothschild." found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones a dog!" He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. At that epoch, the northern extremity of the Rue Saint-Louis was in obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more applicable to Waterloo. side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you done, he closed her eyes. must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; this melancholy strophe:-- He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? thoughts, even the stone. three letters of that word: She. ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the and very obedient servant, "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. heart. opening. liberalism. are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final angry with him for this avowal. which is still pointed out. This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre and watched their play with a melancholy air. surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to twelve. nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." found. So he has dived through the earth." in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, soul yonder which is lonely." escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating gray of the sky. missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it drama as a piece which one does not understand. don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with effrontery. They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had scruples. a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; "You know well that people refuse me." which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, it was formidable for that epoch. world. there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of "Here I am, reverend Mother." descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, She had recognized the gamin. that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean sparrow; the child is called the gamin. "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. you have before you, sir, a wretched man." Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." Javert began again: BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set the Marquise de R---- a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. visible. like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, suddenly burst out crying. that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. "Why did you not bring it at once?" That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore reached the Richefeu smoking-room. on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After agony: appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has surprising could be seen. "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS as yet made a serious beginning. exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good blinded, as it were, by virtue. M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it immediately." me," she said. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.