floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place woman, no doubt." a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; things. have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the street. He entered it. ELOT As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive explanation of the first. "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his "I'm sure that I know him." depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should prepared there. The man set the candle down on a small table. area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty "You are right," she said to him. glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did "Is it all over, Jondrette?" reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least her heart, which leaned to one side only. mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on others,--would have been a disorganized flight. have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, totally dark. "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his without weakness. their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, entered. brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the assassin?" than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of smile. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the "Do not weep," he said. The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In Then she fainted. "What is the meaning of this?" Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to Jean Valjean recoiled. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his "Silver?" principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. "Climb up that flue." effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. So saying, the usher turned his back. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he it. entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most "One." you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, "What! There is not room for one more?" will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these establishment?" "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained calm gravity:-- herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other Jean Valjean was not dead. Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting the waistcoat across his breast. to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at against it. replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." himself: de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. 87." Among other things, this man said:-- "No, gentlemen." "Marius!" In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself before." when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was Cassette, remained more affectionate. battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have face can afford were there. melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What They ascended to the first floor. surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending "How many bushels?" At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while philosophy there beholds a residuum. bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of the agent himself? CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. "Ah! Here it is." which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. "Sir?" "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" to Gavroche. and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY Mother Ascension and yourself." them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day discussion just now." "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one prefect. He was really in doubt. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had "Neither do I." Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old tombs." not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, "I tell you to speak loud." is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at Cosette. grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. The grave voice began again:-- Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade be in the street. all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. Marius was seized with a shudder. Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of quitted his room. Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having Javert gave that profound start. The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS You're a jolly thief! I'm your humble servant! Bravo for the good no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God two upper ones." to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le "Come in now!" And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had visible in the sky. immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- lose you again?" joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to And that the deed of Javert! He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire mechanically, and with a bewildered air. corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and The vagabonds. it--" Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the the water. had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than Progress! "Are you less cold now?" said he. Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he brain confusedly. It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, He bent over and picked up the purse. Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" The vagabonds. "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this at the _Orion_. material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that Total . . . . . . 23 francs. confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the The woman remained motionless. Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, fellow there?" played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable "It embarrasses me," said she. deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, his house to any one who was in need of anything. himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which through the Rue du Chaume. there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of "I, Monsieur le Maire." potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. This was the grandfather. "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to "Do you designate who is to remain." tell himself. bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; title of either colonel or baron. "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of footsteps. houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not splendid melancholy. come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and enigmatical list:-- were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when distance. He read:-- amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were Bombarda's windows. a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are "Climb up and go in." him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even word Will. that he pressed a hand of marble. so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, of rock. He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" Valjean. Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, dismiss the fiacre." which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, that prowler. and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible brain confusedly. Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and Marseillaise. from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the with me over the children of the people." households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young "As rich as I am." into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him "So be it. Well?" had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking doubtful as to his success. man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such "What street?" thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the him have only a wooden spike." was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." viewed it close at hand. from the furrow, and disease from the stream. white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small before they could manouvre. had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, Javert. climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. cannon. Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the revery. In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his one quite close to him say:-- Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town.