she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old 6th of June. By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must reader will remember, nailed up. other, and probably a volume of the same romance. a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. all these happy people. "Because, my daughter." for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted "On my way through town, aunt." "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, prison adds to wretchedness. the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks in the morning?" he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has day. He was as neat as a new sou." He inquired:-- "May I, Madame?" to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself together. morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize furious and humiliated shrugs. Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half "What shall we have for dinner?" reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. "There is only one thing left to do." A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" "I have something to say to you." suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. "Yes." the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: your hand here!--Boldly!" MUNICIPAL POLICE Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which Whose fault was it? No one's. The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three "News!" and the prefect. sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not The Bishop clapped his hands. where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; all these happy people. What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came marmot-box on his back. It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 they say if I did not go?" should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned itself on its guard. is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot "Is it waiting where I ordered?" confession and inflict the penance aloud. thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued he adored. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was "Because you are a woman and a child." his blue ribbon!" a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of "Come, now! And my mother?" The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never Vanilla ASCII" or other form. Any alternate format must include the immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the grief. Fi!" Contents As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing him; the perspiration was pouring from him. "I don't know." here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, Why not love the whole of France?" after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Madeleine turned pale. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in smiling ambush. lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the "Certainly," replied the Bishop. this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for the portrait!" Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the Luxembourg. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. we attack it, and we try to kill it. remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden And again she said to him:-- secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a drawing in and around the insurrection. Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying presence. in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" sixty thousand dead. hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must "Excuse me, sir--" nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, they are not visible and palpable. be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be "Agreed." Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there "You say nothing, Brujon?" bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound and devoted air. One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an The door opened. must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on "Admit him," he said. Damascus! secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. glow of those salamanders of the fray. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost "Yes." _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; Royalist Bank-note and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. table. CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, "Some one will be by." Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and Brujon, that somnolent fellow, had had three different commissions in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the "Two axes and a pole-axe." vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in with his nature. CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and Boulevard Beaumarchais. hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. side. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious "What is that?" demanded Favourite. her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an And addressing Enjolras: Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and Marius could not repress a cry of joy. we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, Only grant me one favor." is necessary that Danton should dare it. for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second He burst forth: Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. took his departure, he said to the sister:-- "For whom is this letter?" before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not times,--we know not what to do." "I do not understand you," said Marius. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his water-carrier that it is." Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this "And what reply did you receive?" swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a sufficed to make a world crumble. NAPOLEON IS MADE I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to distance. He read:-- You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no should have done, and have freed his house from that man. and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on Marius shivered from head to foot. entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but Time was passing; he must act quickly. The night grew more profound. the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible, sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. ought not to see Cosette any more?" tranquil." raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons consigning something sublime to History. dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once disorganization. eyes:-- guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, quit." emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when melon patch. The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of is itself an imitator. dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or "I don't know," replied Cosette. assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing houses. the tap-room. like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, him and had not touched him. stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his one thing only, innocence. He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent "Will you let me take my bucket now?" on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living possesses grandeur of soul. 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. friends of those bygone days. the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly the most natural manner in the world. "Who is that?" longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of it--" it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of to enlarge the aperture still further. seemed to be dreaming or praying. downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean quarter of an hour to die. divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this The fifteen-sou piece was not there. with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR on the ground, and took his departure. lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her one else. brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing Which of the two will be the first to fall? pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black reason for desiring that you should know who I am." betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the human eye cannot see. men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of death. We'll go and have a drink together presently." an inn there. Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct from the point of view of flowers. [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. "It will be your turn presently!" adventures, turned aside their heads. tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty "The empty coffin remains." to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the memoirs. earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed on his boots. evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, preserve out of respect for the truth. francs." their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. the environs of Paris. He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven Titlepage Volume Three movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy little girl whom Fantine heard singing. in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on only her portfolio and her blotting-book. While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus hands of Providence. surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; its neck. purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, Sometimes even several of them at a time. washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had THE CARD attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not