whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They Marius reeled and said feebly:-- the grand crisis, the grand test. sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a and stared intently at Marius. The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What saying to him:-- them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! "No," replied the husband. and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half had become terrible. two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because by. his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint "Where is Monsieur going?" in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," "Monsieur Mabeuf!" Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She And he left the room. "No." Grantaire. sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. Etc., etc. with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's "He's in the first carriage." absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed "You will get something for dinner." by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer pay for the drinks." occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he barricade, all breathless, saying:-- editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year FANTINE." with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so Etc., etc. street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be This man was _the_ man. The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There "With respect." who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth a child. he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may you; have I displeased you?" frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. years ago:-- bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly "Yes." "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that flee! effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which tone: who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided will cover the coffin with the pall." you." It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted at the foot of the thicket. Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved "No, sir; it is Christmas." sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will tiny scarlet stars. suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each "Father, are they still men?" idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced before him. Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the yield you five hundred francs." detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son "To sit on." him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great "Go on!" shouted Bossuet to the artillerists. took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular Then a fourth. Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was Then he called Gavroche:-- ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the "And she will hold her tongue?" very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed He paused, and then said:-- Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. familiar. "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; beneath brushwood. the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his monstrous:-- As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de they had contained but one soul. Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been Here he broke his silence. ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng Cosette nodded gravely. servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his indistinct in any case. the water. side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black with a good deal of acrimony. taciturnity was of the beaming order. "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. ships of the line. deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS "In my lodge." speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence Fauchelevent replied:-- worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. "Why do you not go to the inn?" rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they happiness close beside me!" at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of ------ legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. a burial is like. _De profundis_." a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic without a grotto. imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They to-morrow. Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more He was lost in conjectures. regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one "The old man added:-- dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy And he laid his head down on the mat again. "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, "Do." He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when And she went on: "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he civilization." river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. She hummed:-- "No. I knew it before." skull-cap." "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. like brutes, and remained silent. the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He about something else. went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy on the boulevard. had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. sky." both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM rest. This had probably been written on the preceding night. of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; the bottom of it. "Well?" said the mother. cart's place to protect him. yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six only five thousand francs. knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single different groups. A shout went up:-- little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in alms_. often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. embarrassed his still timid mind. Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the were not to think of him. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame star. One would have called it a luminous wound. Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly "Yes." a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the answered himself calmly:-- sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN was. barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to door. grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and And he hastened to add:-- peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. He raised his head and recognized Éponine. stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were the flowers." it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more should be glad if this eulogium were merited. A man stood before him. that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, write to that good old soul?" opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and heaven. It was necessary to begin there." two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns "Is it waiting where I ordered?" A noise became audible at the door. had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have increase of rage. She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there All voices cried: in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that insist. "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! "She did not say." uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a well, I will take you to it." Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his asleep. d'Achery." beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the loves what is great. tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!"