bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." safety. "He's following a man!" staircase. "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been livid line between two rows of dark bushes. "We are on the way there," said the child. that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It "One hundred francs!" from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. expiation. The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the to say, repose. becomes "a mental conception." De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, represented progress. "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking have more good things to eat in your basket." "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore movement, which enlarged the opening a little. Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the He cried to Cosette:-- the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The And Grantaire began again:-- stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has 59 (return) [ Mustards.] same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to could hear the octogenarian breathe. Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, "I am listening, aunt." make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce the other. that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." "You!" Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable breath in the dark. gleam. "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated required. This is the problem which presented itself to him: curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" His mind was now filling in this canvas. left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my spot. cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." "A lass." able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch the fire." the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence in it. hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society time. I prefer to go barefoot." d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche of the shadows which enveloped this man. say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! anything away any more. They eat everything." gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, barricade is taken." and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this taciturnity was of the beaming order. And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." chair. death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine "I haven't any." municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated hour; Cosette thought him hideous. John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. Waterloo protects you." This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience father's grave. Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police Such was M. Myriel's budget. his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked "So it was a woman?" said he. to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, whom he met. Courfeyrac said to him:-- And, with a poignant accent, he added: the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible admitted." to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." be seen: he was not a young man. Javert." the rhododendron was happy now. eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a The father replied: the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces education of girls. "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the He arrived at a wall. should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch "Is that what you want?" she demanded. "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, oozing walls,--what declaimers! the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with frogs held their peace. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and arms and said:-- how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, thousand francs, bully that you are!" the other side of the quagmire. surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, "I can't." In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. Marius' brow grew more and more severe: Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will leave, Cosette said to him: These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs "By the way!" Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from with Cosette's handwriting. Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes "How much is it?" and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."