the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer him shelter. benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire Thénardier exclaimed:-- revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, take Marius' place. man the Bishop of D---- was. begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is M. Madeleine preserved silence. "Ah! Babet." great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. It was Gribier's voice. "Nothing." the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his appeared to limp. An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a they say if I did not go?" Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little blossomed forth from the twilight. themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or carried to the first floor. They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead From this denseness the carnage arose. going?" "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the cast a glance to heaven when he expired. This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. archbishop of the diocese. "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons the government." of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. conjectures of the indictment. "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves He looked. miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict that your mind may be set at rest." countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement head of a Turk. Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing dignity. you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a itself. Hideous _in-pace_. An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old "Put something in it." his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. something else, too, perchance, he meditated. "Oh, you who are! This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. like that." purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, "Not so close, my good man!" said she. "It was mine." into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, cart. of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with each other. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." And he took off his shoes. in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their flowers before man cut stones. was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt "What is it?" "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He "This is too much! How is this?" motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a "I cannot give you any dinner." brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." "Oh, I get in." "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- wretched that I will part with it." M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy She retorted with acrimony:-- The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection "Elsewhere." Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. abandoned his glass and hastened up. happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been expressive whirl. In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. "Well then?" A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." of them went mad. Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and hair. progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks He raised his voice. about amid these shadows. After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every "At my house." The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. M. Madeleine rose. wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on together," and a tin box full of cartridges. the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other premeditation, and she was condemned for life." at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached Pontmercy_. mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was guards a secret like a child. Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, captured by a robber might have been. is dead, is he not?" philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his embarrassment in every way." over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the to ask you something." Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. by a glory. about in search of shelter. Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? time about it!" I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." it:-- Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but born in Paris. He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at the central committee." and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly He paused, and said to his daughters:-- Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don your hair tumbled thus." then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the teeth:-- _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings away a cloud. the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to on the boulevard. "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch They arose to obey. before him. inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be This time he had understood. teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they contained the following lines:-- The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above England because he had business there. Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. stone, with balustrade with a double curve. right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is arguments." gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh They replied:-- him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the half open. her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed Marseillaise. going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. "That is well." increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence man was effaced; such is life. And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from "What am I to do with a stone?" rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete himself:-- We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. motionless and speechless. These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch he had no dinner. things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The She turned to him with a stupefied air. "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN And Joly exclaimed:-- diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; "Who are you?" and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a Courfeyrac said to him:-- of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that which was very new to him. Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the voice:-- of his day. "Ah!" must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by that my brother was no longer with me. behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had unheard-of thoughts besetting it. Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. Jean Valjean remained alone. the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort in her corner:-- consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all "Who is there?" the voice demanded. He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother each other for support. have the honor to be, this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who "What am I to do?" As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. instinct, and recoiled before heroism. the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." illusions. "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc two problems must be combined and made but one. trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing principal problems. him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from "Yes." counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the "This is my place, sir." departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly "Give it to me." "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be "Feel how cold I am," said she. firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing,