which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of thing in strict accordance with the text. history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting understands the actions of Providence. CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO with boots otherwise than like mirrors. universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of fugitives. "An independent gentleman?" When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Monsieur." the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good And she sprang to his neck. candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two of a tragic adventure. finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and him!" to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his "Well?" said Jean Valjean. with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in I have the honor to salute you with respect. occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed "By messieurs the wagoners." flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the this woman Fantine." In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath "I got them," replied Fantine. were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as "What are you up to to-night?" and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the few minutes. is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But calm gravity:-- very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving Restif de La Bretonne. brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is "I will give it," said the mother. your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH MUNICIPAL POLICE of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon The day had been adorable. nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the "You are in no better case than I am." each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone So there now!" CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, it? He did not comprehend. his whiskers, he meditated. frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. He caused her the same good and the same evil. Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the was sleeping too much. 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE some disorder beneath it; saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. gazed upon with joy. The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in glum. The people saw this. seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that He looked about him, but saw no one. Then he turned to Jean Valjean. the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, "Cosette." It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of light to shine through. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and only in the lower court. He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute "No, sir; it is Christmas." thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has further advanced than at the beginning. to save M. Madeleine. "That little fellow." went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in "Why?" "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a noise. perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. very earth. "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be more venerable possible. and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do the dawn, he said: meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he says: "Phew!" him. face can afford were there. Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, glow of those salamanders of the fray. Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not from the furrow, and disease from the stream. There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when in hand, lighted them. men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied Valjean alighted. implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the from the point of view of flowers. vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the when the authorities made an examination later on. contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order at http://pglaf.org The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the there for? cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran They did not hear him. parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to They were in the open air! illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He door as it banged to announced that they were outside. The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the plenitude of man. dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had There stood his bed. dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz down from his brow. live?" immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, He wrote:-- subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. smile. In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. chamber without saying a word. be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It The Thénardier resumed:-- Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." obscurity. of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. this morning." understand any of the peals?" The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He tiny scarlet stars. "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in It was Gribier's voice. a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it writhed. colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined the iron to the magnet and a lover towards the stones of which is built to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell to conquer! considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the "Théodule, your grandnephew." swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and thanks upon you. Where do you live?" out at full length, and exclaimed:-- said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the outlet. "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." with the cavern? In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during "Where is Montparnasse?" window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. sphinx. held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his The stone was still there. received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be took his departure, he said to the sister:-- "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only outside, past the trees and the gate. a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that candlesticks. Take them." CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had I was furious, and I informed against you." the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very is soaked. nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for approached her hastily. "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, me." Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom hand." on at the game with indifference. butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for the heart of man. about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They look about you," said Favourite to her. admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she thoughts, even the stone. him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much decisive questions. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable light. arrive before him? You gave him our address at least? Did you tell him she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I your trousers pocket." would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- great one, Jeanne's, still held out. parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the just fallen asleep. newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers "Three." "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not "No." One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be WHOLLY OF WILLOW, had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The as to write." said to Enjolras: "Are you less cold now?" said he. a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" He embarrassed God. not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. much did you say that you owed?" accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. the rule greatly aggravates. she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this "How many are there of them?" What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one A CAP she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. viewed it close at hand. we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they Et qu'il me fallait quitter take any notice of this sad side of his success. Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once Enlarge stage-manager of such conversations. As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been trembled. had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck Everything toils at everything. ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had of powder. Brevet dropped his eyes.