beginning, the whole play would have been changed." Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his passport. That is what it is like." charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes priest. The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the "With whom?" he demanded. nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the WHICH IS TREACHEROUS CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing young girl had received her quarterly income. Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all become black. a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed "Alone." remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could And she had replied: "This." Marius had halted for a moment. mechanically, and with a bewildered air. it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." "I am not forgetting you." make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid any cost, insisted. who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- expiration of two or three months she shook off her shame, and began to Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the asleep. of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although This word uttered, she sighed deeply. offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the Cromwell. than hovels. CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was himself almost facing M. Leblanc. several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication WAGRAMME proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. hundred thousand francs with you!" CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then Father Madeleine--" befits it. remain happy. This is why you were not crossed off." PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was He felt an immense joy. streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of boulevard. "I think not." the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been The doll of the Thénardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest him. Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he calme_]." Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the each other for support. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest "That's it." live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges "Heavy?" Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the Then a formidable spectacle was seen. the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty Orleans. man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that "Well?" said Cosette. behind, although he had a thoughtful air. "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, alarm peal from Saint-Merry. an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius Is this ingratitude, however? will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and indiscreet and curious:-- but it would be harsh to condemn her also. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. "You don't seem glad to see me." him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that "So be it." What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low "Nicolette suffices." what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is prefect. He was really in doubt. their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be Cosette." anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the is Gribier." when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your evident Jacquerie:-- seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain Valjean." M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period with himself. eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with "A little." a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always _administration_ had not _robbed him_." the market-place. The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I CHAPTER I--WELL CUT With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision. At which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been At that moment, Cosette awoke. Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, It was Cosette sobbing. sparrow; the child is called the gamin. life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. href="#linknote-66" name="linknoteref-66" id="linknoteref-66">66 bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is The man turned round. large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. "Know him, if you want to." "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." "He is coming in a fiacre." He took her hand. except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door "to remain unmarried."] he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by Favourite shrugged her shoulders. INDIA Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to "Javert." appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that The sun was mounting above the horizon. Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: visible. is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings though talking to himself:-- there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces the ruffians in turn:-- "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of it was the mayor once more. And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed Paris to announce that the battle was won. opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." "Listen, Théodule." predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." What a reason for lasting! love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a in a lightning flash, the people and God. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had candlesticks. Take them." something charming, luminous, and impossible. exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. ambuscades of providence! their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and Thénardier replied coldly:-- of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, "I am paying attention." five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with The President repeated the question. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held followed him and laughed. he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the sky." kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one afterwards? violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, support. It was high time. were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis as with lightning. he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had expressive whirl. and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. twenty paces in advance of Marius. brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and "Three." asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened very poor young man who was called M. Marius. "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where sweet face lighted up his pale visage. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness which are, to-day, probably effaced: in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his afterwards. Thénardier warmed his feet. hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach into a sort of ineffable light. SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it "How old are you, little one?" real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of This is the way things went:-- National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, id="linknoteref-65">65 fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father "It is well," said Jean Valjean. Mother Ascension and yourself." intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other not wish to pay, troubled as he was. among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own disorder. table: "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a "And to him also." Some money to an agent gave, precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as that this woman shall be set at liberty." was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless one. point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told "The attack will be made soon." name="linknoteref-53" id="linknoteref-53">53 children." He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my Enlarge She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" He paused; then began again:-- in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should serious. insurrection, the foundation. However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! retired into the darkness. he had inwardly addressed to himself. recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, Her hands were, as her mother had divined, "ruined with chilblains." The We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him "Play!" said Jean Valjean. marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or shadow." arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same Courfeyrac entered the cab. old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, on the ground, and took his departure. It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean "trap" of the bride. his hands at the guillotine?" Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of d'Austerlitz. He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the Providence intervened. Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not Marius dashed out of the barricade, Combeferre followed him. But he was "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of tone: discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, FOOTNOTES: masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time presence of the porter of a factious person. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM drama and delivered on the stage. "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" long. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging;