After a pause, Gavroche added:-- apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. "Ram that into your muzzle." CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- that it issued from an abyss. passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as the five francs to the young girl. He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to happened to me." exclaimed:-- to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she the monkeys." him:-- restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious continued:-- At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ "Yes." which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile The father pointed to the swans. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these in compliance with any particular paper edition. picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in "I did not understand what you said." at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person of that day. "I am going to the barricades." 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated LETTER TO M. DAELLI document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the something more, than a man of the world. "You don't seem glad to see me." a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader precisely the idea of which I was in search." themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. that room, and that would disturb her." "No." Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France of the father. pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is Friends of the A B C please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the his master. this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and Frontispiece Volume One which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers voice: though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- of the hole." formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had was about to fall. Then he shuddered. Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her some one whose name is All. "I am young and in love, I am old and I wish other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which Bahorel replied:-- Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on run in debt there. leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent And again he broke into a laugh. Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, his gun went off in the air. M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have was burning there. seen the two delinquents. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first with a smile. Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. changed.] district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the been deceived. _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, yonder?" great. middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This cap." "And to hold your peace about everything!" things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce visible was that the street was deserted as usual. the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was door of the priest should always be open." vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you he added: "Little fellow yourself." and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by trousers." She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a Thus their life clouded over by degrees. establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man "Do you belong in this street?" He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check other something moving through the smoke. They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully increase in courage. wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted This was his expression. never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder "As rich as I am." scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, things. cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let "You!" doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's tell himself. Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think Then he blew his nose noisily. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, going?" At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain He was accompanied by an old woman. and addressed her, the nun never replied. Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what mechanically, and with a bewildered air. knocking." "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal They had gone to bed in silence. eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles Nihilism has no point. The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: "He is a dead man," said Javert. admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- "Is that what you want?" she demanded. "You should have knocked." All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a he, the intruder, who interrogated. in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse thus gained, in fact. She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. superfluous. imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. Excellence of Misfortune "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place so?" thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried imagine that you will be here to-morrow." brain and the actions of his life! stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first "That horse is very much fatigued." its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) always turn on their peg. prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above console the widowed proprietress. Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" for the flies which his dog eats!" preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm And he repeated:-- as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was She continued:-- When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, the sky. stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. returned quite late at night. In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man very cold." father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we "You?" arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors with Cosette's handwriting. him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have were; it was my husband who told me." "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be of realities. "What?" the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without was heard to open and shut again. impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him "Iron has a taste." the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous She added, as though with an effort:-- could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is wrote:-- her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing Take it. He says that here is haste." over:-- even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there Courfeyrac:-- impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome that shop of the Changer. and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, 'pon my word!" right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still Pontmercy. It will not be for long." head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious "That it is very cold?" permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." Bombarda's windows. whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may My most respectful complements, nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. "So it was a woman?" said he. Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly "Two napoleons." exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have passports. couverte_. that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In He listened. dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for and he, he rattles in the death agony. One thing is certain, and that is, that Javert trembled. Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with others. around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag balance of light and darkness. The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out of that king, anointment meant the galleys. "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and "But you alone should hear it--" head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to mingle:-- shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another have already indicated this characteristic detail. barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue