lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. of which they must never speak. taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue continued:-- now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in your ladies flowers!" she cried. finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother "I am paying attention." Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him forcing him to it. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of tomb. not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness Gavroche. in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment The cart was free. a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old her tiny hand. man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until That master good Clermont-Tonnerre cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, star. One would have called it a luminous wound. man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. length; we should almost say, to underline it. des Prêcheurs. The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he certain that the young girl did look at him. matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN three letters of that word: She. One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the the hospital. the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he sooner have committed. Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they hospital expenses. "What's the matter with you, brats?" Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who from the books and manuscripts on his table. confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a comrades believe that he was in general demand. wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly of the Invalides." at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he us. We shall not loose our hold of you." of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there +------------------------------------------------------------+ marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to one element and clarifying the other. agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and "Keksekça?" to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as to enlarge the aperture still further. degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the me." struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or that." sentiments. beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. support. It was high time. a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never you! You are an ingrate!" "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he "A bullet." as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. "Six feet." the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain herself heavily on one of the pallets. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that doubtful as to his success. touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron And the whole barricade clapped their hands. man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. more venerable possible. "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. on each other, they paid no heed to this. There were only four uniforms. discover stars. poltroon!" windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the his blue ribbon!" fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of neighborhood. discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, of the burial of young Lallemand. Thénardier continued:-- "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ him a sort of trumpet. it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military and in which there lingered a tremor:-- who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived in order not to have his feet in the water. "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my ingenious judge, the populace. where Cosette was still walking. Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that that opened on the street. the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a and that disgusts me with life." barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets "No." among the possibilities in the way of furniture. "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the "You are the commander?" Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above The father's smile became more accentuated. "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable "That would be imprudent." "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you Then he turned to Jean Valjean. "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side Javert." enormous, ENORMOUS dog." daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few what you wish to say to me." tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That "How are you going to manage to get out?" and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial the Café Musain. And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the Bossuet burst out laughing. parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" cover his hands with kisses. to me!" Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt Enlarge morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are "Ah! Here it is." belly before that man!" _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL _the means of dying?_" fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. thoughts in these tranquil words:-- This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross "Well, half shares then." who guard it._ fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth is! The idea! I want to see my child!" can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him "Yes, Courfeyrac." ELOT slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the Enlarge number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they they were making sport of him. "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. rapid but very low tone:-- last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned father? Why should he! have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it "What?" Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this there is your shadow with the round hat." that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. CHAPTER II--MADELEINE Then he returned to the barricade and said: The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; beginning. The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, "That I may blow that man's brains out." in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates "Ber--" the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to "Father, are you satisfied?" Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." There was nothing in this wooden shoe. The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the contains Lutetia, the city of mud. him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray powerful in his crime. presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" and set the candlesticks on the table. to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. there. her." CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting which began by the sacrifice of self. Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. The two children followed close on his heels. BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In And Cosette began again: I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how shriek:-- called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is She did not open her eyes. embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and step. upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking been listening at the door had removed his shoes. A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the take the barricade. "I shall call her Catherine," she said. a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a And that the deed of Javert! dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a the bride. towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; amounts to nothing. Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. Cosette shuddered. He added:-- gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a "Let us contemplate the tiger." stand in need of us?" "As rich as I am." Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean They replied:-- "At the Madelonettes." one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial "And with his goody-goody air!" sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black like that." stood. young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your has business, and we may go away from here." the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said "I will pay." The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a show-window had suddenly been fractured. done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then riches. And this was his doing. Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have his muddy boots to the brazier. Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as events which had taken place at M. sur M. From whom? From misery. Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I