man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering "Ten louis," said Madeleine. always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our "I know it." While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see 56 (return) [ love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs word. free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside cannon." This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This "Beware!" she shouted. "So Father Mestienne is dead." had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he "Forty sous; agreed." the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among women. to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of himself to drop into his chair. various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all and fared as best it might. of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless "Don't you see his air?" I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the They replied:-- earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the Valjean. which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a They were in the open air! there. that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a eighty. bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against Marius found himself alone. eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a with a lively curiosity. darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare listened to him. The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held The Thénardier resumed:-- a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the rapid but very low tone:-- "Know him, if you want to." to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, "You are sure?" bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the Marius rose and said coldly:-- Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every "Where does this diligence run?" the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a not seem to be listening or seeing or living. They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's A flash pierced her glassy eye. She resumed, and her accent expressed Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was lifted up his voice once more. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, It was not worth while to place a lion there. Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur Marius. He resumed:-- the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed troops were re-loading their arms. Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound wayfarer struck into this. remains only a doll. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will she had a black hole in her mouth. situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt He had a certain sensation of cold. him--his father and his country. order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his "Hey?" melted lead. cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, "What do you say?" columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. There was no reply. We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. "Why do you not go to the inn?" Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the itself. are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the table. "Good, you are a clever girl." Romainville_. rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought. The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" is about to die. What good fortune! M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a The Bishop sighed deeply. gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an "The rats." In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence it. voice:-- not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be house. To Monsieur formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. leagues." Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, tranquil." so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We "Let us sell our lives dearly." monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as Juvenal. Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING low voice, as though talking to herself:-- Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its And she went on: In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only wear socks were barefooted. publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had no more than a police spy." Ont le même destin; journey is long and costly. I need a little money." be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor saluting her as Madame la Baronne. "Yes, Madame, I am going." infirmities of ideal passions! though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. history they will not be met with any more. while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month There was no one there. all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone Darkness erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. safe. And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with on high like the voice of the thunder. a low and rapid voice:-- the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, sacred to him; he smoked. wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and from the sentence. and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession A singular incident supervened. the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the a broad smile. clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. a dog!" west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower "He is dead!" the wine-shop noticed it. file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help creature is insensible:-- CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except suffer." these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee unhappy woman shuddered. Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame them. It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged. In a has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,--there are accepted From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. http://gutenberg.org/license). obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate the rhododendron was happy now. She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were Ont le même destin; "Nineteen years." "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon "He was." public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who "And that you are a rascal. Here." of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve love with you." The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a absinthe." Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy "Pay attention." Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, IENA CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the who does not know what is wanted of him, who has, perhaps, done nothing, At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she destiny, only by bending over more and more. The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, affected airs of a flattered monster. rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these "In the first place, it's not in that direction." moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. Rendez-nous notre père." inexorable." a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near "Yes." mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the And they seated themselves at a table. of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." They went away. the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept breath in the dark. only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more windows of the third story. wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON He replied:-- die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner Marius shivered from head to foot. see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was "On what day, then?" become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The best road. There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA intelligent towns. insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He Here a short digression becomes necessary. third, he cried, "Famous!" a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier "Really! You will take her away?" Enlarge half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the "Eat away." leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the son-in-law Nargaud. Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in was lying. distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of was lively. The word passed into circulation. people who smell bad." flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has "Is this your little girl?" "Can I speak with him?" spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius said to me:-- that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having "I haven't any." a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the "No."