And the two children followed him as they would have followed an convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we "Not she, he." district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length "And when do you start?" arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the "Then content yourself with obeying." "Let us knock!" and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which others. Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of LES MISÉRABLES Was she expecting a visitor? No. produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" VOLUME III--MARIUS. any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated inquired of him:-- throat. beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, half of his desire. advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: you!" I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning "What young 'un?" Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are was devouring with her eyes. As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was there. Marius was not there. am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, to enlarge the aperture still further. The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden "Hey?" said Gavroche again. announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when "Immediately." the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he "But first, take a drop," said he. possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and the heart of man. as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but come from us." penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact seem to me to be ill." other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was "Is there a carriage at the door?" crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; cemetery. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. Dépêche. (Make haste.) pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was The Bishop turned to the man. bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, Such was the situation. For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be acclamations. canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The francs, and his handkerchief. Robespierre waistcoat. to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are stammered:-- prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming harshly. door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. be seen from the street. said in a harsh voice:-- There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as BAPTISTINE. that side." them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the man." to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and night. which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND "One named Little Gervais?" of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all And he fumbled in his pocket. "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child and was spying on his proceedings. CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en knows the rest. in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the commonly supposed. from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on billows of the invisible; he shouts. through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed "And then?" said Gavroche. him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken for you!" off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most some authority: hour; Cosette thought him hideous. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, one on the floor was the colonel. ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. to be absent for three days?" When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin "Anarchy is entering this garden." "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "What do you mean?" was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; become august. He had just expired. one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace The father replied: "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated icy perspiration stood in beads. more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF dream of Jean Jacques. conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near studded with stars. student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been languages, what may be called their granite. Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? displace the bar and slip into the garden. this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a "You are a police spy?" "Rue Mouffetard." the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; "Paris in Pantin to-day." Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a "Give me your hand," said the doctor. in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's a Benedictine nun. those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against The Black Hunt and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, become any paler. her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy talking aloud to me." drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude were forming in his bosom. second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out All wheeled round. It was Javert. which were common with him. These were this man's first words:-- they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us "What did you come here for?" just found it again. and spend the remainder of the night. you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the "Now, whom are we to eat?" the darkness at the entrance of the hut. return. Drive it out better. "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his people who smell bad." moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, "What then?" Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. "Six o'clock precisely." in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he "Welcome, citizen." become real things! by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. The investigation had begun. compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he "Fauchelevent." the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, meditation. sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have "I should beg alms of them for my poor." procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, "You wished to be Madame. You are so." more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad You will be paid for all the little things. It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. draughts, as there are under the bridges." in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am Thénardier took the paper and read:-- Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this is addressing me on the point of going mad?" "What did the doctor say?" stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, tone: As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he wood, iron and cords. appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of happiness within, results social prosperity. was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must "Little one, you are the Queen of France." "The attack will be made soon." more simple. A glance is a spark. It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine hundred francs. floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of unforeseen blow. hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who "So be it." In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden "Well! Make haste and get it here!" which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were dismiss the fiacre." ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked room. Immediately." of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." On the day following that on which these events took place in the house catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots. At six francs the On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that vaguely, and said:-- taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to few minutes. "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop "Look out!" He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be "Do you love me?" said she. in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a where she spoke ill of her daughter. replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, where to go." haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming "You?" diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The quitted his room. Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling Jean Valjean continued: he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a quarrel!" l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the good day, which is in fact full of grace. "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'