reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These Trappe replies to Horace. possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long "The slab which closes the vault?" of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in born in Paris. Enlarge Javert. about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen added:-- and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with francs. They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the darling." traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that lost. Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who "Booby! make her your mistress." "That is true," replied the man. that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to Kruideniers, called Bizarro. open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the and exclaimed:-- in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the You must not be egoists." was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, accompanied these words. the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she of man, love. physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his flight. range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to the barricade would have been taken. but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set stupid majesty which befits white creatures. these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he It is hard to miss the last cake. this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church A man entered. garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a "Will you let me take my bucket now?" at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. That made three. young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who M. Leblanc took the pen. undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. battle at Waterloo. nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and with an air of reproach. difficulties of being a king. "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and infinite. number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten the captain to show himself. The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. he wrote: Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old "She is a cricket." and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of "That it is very cold?" "And to him also." a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to Valjean's sign. Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness rubbish swept up, corpses removed. "I must be there this evening." There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during for French bullets! brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and the Monarchy." "What did he say to you?" and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with and he made her pray. the five francs to the young girl. indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. night. beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. take Marius' place. towards all children and sufferers. He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers. her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two This outlined the catastrophe. muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The And to the ventriloquist:-- CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to war." behind her. She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers take charge of the Cougourde myself." that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness close to the workingman, the second to the students. "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being "But she will hear." drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade quit." of Cavalry, a royalist who A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. "Alone?" "And that you are a rascal. Here." there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, from the populace, passed with great noise. other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. one else. now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without has taken a resolution. lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with "It was Madame Thénardier." pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his "Smile." the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still mean?" not come from there. talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" CHAPTER II--MARIUS In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and "That is understood." more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This who was fast asleep. "He's in the first carriage." Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS "More often than what?" ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil door. "No." have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!21 Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory The first hour passed in this manner. carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. populace wages battle against, the people. God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. "Who is that?" "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which garden," said he. chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was this, the barricade burst into a laugh. network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best He had just found his clap of thunder. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. "He spends the night out." which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. "Why don't you have a cat?" and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to adventure, indeed." sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were He was decidedly terrified. schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are this epoch. obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood powder in the tap-room, near the door. is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. de Babylone; "Ten francs." "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., sacred to him; he smoked. Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people familiar. themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she from Vincennes. with legal order. kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more another of those Saint-Simonians!" and they wanted to kill him. Now, he for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. "Not even of you, father!" it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk Marius looked at the thumb. Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever convict." The district-attorney took the word:-- had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the "Bread." lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against He reflected for a moment. Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at "That makes forty francs." execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due "And when shall you return?" He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, A third shovelful of earth fell. as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is regarded by others. aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself address, indeed!" without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.