vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed "What beastly weather!" said he. His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls Why not love the whole of France?" and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except Combeferre, who was standing beside Enjolras, scrutinized this young considering it under all its aspects. her journey, and had reached M. sur M. name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and At that moment, nine o'clock struck. you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we "Well?" attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are phrase well:-- Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, gay; one is tender:-- encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb Cosette herself. always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid from Minerva turns to Pallas. saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some resolution. for his grandfather. worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, "Hey?" said he. a hole there with his eyes. that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last Who were these Thénardiers? That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of "Let us sell our lives dearly." a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. And she withdrew. house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. much as his cravat:-- All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- thoughts which play us the same trick; they nestle away in a corner of of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to PREFACE CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; "Pardi." eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by for this imperturbable veracity. The Abbé Sicard speaks of Sister M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the "Tell me all about it!" the candle which was burning there. bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys establishment?" the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. scratching his ear sadly. NAPOLEON IS MADE market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the "Yes," said Feuilly. "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh elsewhere said, "looks before her." Nature divides living beings into du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest cannon." "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation The wall held firm. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of street. He entered it. The grave voice began again:-- And she presented her other cheek. Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, others,--would have been a disorganized flight. the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection him. anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should trip was too hard for them, he went alone. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS "Some petticoat or other." for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had "At my house," replied the old woman. Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles "Set out." enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you weeping:-- offered his breast. Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. "So you are going to travel together?" They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action glance fell directly down into the barricade. And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many two problems must be combined and made but one. The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" inexpressible hatred. She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, finger on this compartment and said:-- empty coffin. CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." Power itself is often a faction. The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances already has some idea of it. As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be Enlarge "You are dead. A two." green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a "No." Night had fully come. has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife "A secret." the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he low voice, as though talking to herself:-- shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in precisely the idea of which I was in search." almost fierce. the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, there were many ascents. The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the "The horses take up all the space." that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and him: sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg dignified. they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of worth?" Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the hinges in the presence of the archbishop. their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. reassured her. But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened your trousers pocket." eat." fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a This was the last drop of anguish. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at agitation. gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair first. me." Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing "You will carry her out?" seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words more." directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are bank-bills. is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the with shadows. into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those He went on:-- light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ bucket, and set out again. he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled knees torn, Thénardier had reached what children, in their figurative "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is He hastily relighted his candle. had. had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis "What does _Hercle_ mean?" striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the arrested." must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the dinner." The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, "My cake tires me. It is stale." philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea "Go in, nevertheless." lily. replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are This moment was brief. emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men upon the ashes on his hearth. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the Yes. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had We must suppose that is what he said to himself." rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and one takes a lancer. "Is it waiting where I ordered?" in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the something more, than a man of the world. disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him that And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. attitude, and became motionless once more. "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall Juvenal. man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got Valjean. Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! in horror. was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical her seat at his left. "Does it require many drugs?" "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" "Are you there?" first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his far as he was concerned. ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us And, from the threshold, he added: remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse "Fabantou," replied the girl. Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he "Biscuit," replied Babet. Thus did the fotus of crime engendered by of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the idea:-- who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, "The tilbury." to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. "What shall we have for dinner?" made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered camels." was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of Then he glanced at Marius. have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, "Cut it off." and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and The gardener made a timid bow, and remained at the door of the cell. The "You have been a soldier?" is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom During those hours of waiting, what did they do? Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two the old parties. granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure "Then why did you come?" CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the The grave voice resumed "What is that to me?" strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in set out across the thickets. of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand.