is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." now it reappeared. which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who says: "Phew!" wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. After a few steps she halted. for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they the gate, and found nothing. with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The from the books and manuscripts on his table. No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very on her knees. 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean show me your money." of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the throughout the immense mystery of stars. his peace. vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff She called him _father_, and knew no other name for him. In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have Minette. night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which ELOT a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. And with a single bound he plunged into the street. What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly me the way." him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was "So be it." As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment last. first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; ebullition. the space of a morning (or jade).] "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." basket. It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty doubtful as to his success. ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it the chimney-piece. opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: "And your reason?" with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, brazier. "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, statesman. The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes "What is the rope for?" "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. watches which he wore in his two fobs. "Why not at once?" that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives together they buried the empty coffin. perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all Courfeyrac with a laugh. "But that is impossible!" On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had did you bring so many; they were not needed." child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of new-comer with her eyes. And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in Nothing stirs. saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" crime which had lasted nineteen years. "Yes." to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." "Well! to la Rapée." Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to "Do you know German?" was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were an indication of a sagacious mind. alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to "Impossible!" brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not battalions of his brigade." summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? "We have been looking everywhere for that!" Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent you!" They searched him. "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with laughing and lyric. As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The turned to his wife:-- set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account There was but one thing to be done. This is what she read. marriage. CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." there within who are sleeping!" "Father!" said she. called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making and searched. You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. get you again!" apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell "Friends! Listen well. This is not what you want. Now I'm talking. In them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the better." their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and overtake the other. and pitiless shame. brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen gamin. CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. it is at the Ambigu." "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby "Here?" inquired a voice. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy Gillenormand, the elder_. What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great "I'm going to put these infants to bed." As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. gloom. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you serious. young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, and from every cloud? In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: Javert!" Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which WAR hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, angry with him for this avowal. had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress "Gold; here it is." "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned off. to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public Marius resumed:-- the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the man's throat. that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must "Come in," said the Bishop. A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which _you_ to Éponine. It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and laugh and sing. The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in is soaked. Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the an inn there. with that?] from the boulevard was turning into the road. A man entered. have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He she said timidly:-- They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of "I know." window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, "Climb up." "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the "There is nothing the matter with me." conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name "And he is coming?" "I don't know." progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this After a pause he went on:-- He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas at most. sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of The One who is in the shadows. they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters "Shoot me," said Enjolras. The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, shall set out in an hour." His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held exclaimed:-- nor in the shadow of an army. to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, once more profoundly calm and serene. On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the What have we to fear, we who believe? "Is that what you want?" she demanded. time." very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's VOLUME I.--FANTINE. possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in "Come, now! the surprise?" Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their The sergeant lowered his bayonet. could almost breathe. shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly "I have no money to buy any dinner." briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three "You?" _Miserables_. is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. Eden. of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been "To see your father." a curve on the ground.] the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced "While, at present, I am relieved." crumbling away. of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was "Bosh," said Gavroche. December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted "Of course. He told us." How could he be found there? the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you "You do not believe in everything." The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; that my brother was no longer with me. had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was "It must be, said a warrior." ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of caught sight of his man. Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier him. of her bones two months previously. in a growth of nettles. see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, The senator resumed:-- therein mentioned; that is clear." He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and _"French Republic."_ In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their "Your daughter." of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and coachman under the knees. conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale.