blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of pavement. impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, love him. CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- remained classic:-- "Dismiss the carriage!" He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue this epoch. foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass fault has passed." poet. "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a The two men took counsel together. It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he And she felt herself lifted from the ground. "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will said:-- the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, and a stove?" At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" brute." He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The considering it under all its aspects. Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and down. about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his neither assent nor refusal. "Bread." from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding "When the vault is open--" cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations dust. and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which it means prosper." sworn!" "That little fellow." false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was "An idler." everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. the Marquise de R---- wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon "Thénardier." in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound thus. Ah, wretch!" "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing reason for being unjust towards God." "What luck!" said Combeferre. took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in above. inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. pace. church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me "Fifty sous--three francs." "Well?" master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an the five francs to the young girl. thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like leagues still to go." Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls his name on the card." benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the staircase, still carrying Cosette. daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which "What?" which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. "Yes." The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought "I know him." The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who Cosette's rising. Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING regain the steps. parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. And they burst out laughing. What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life thieves what the lion is to the jackal. His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. how, and was not asleep. The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room there. was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the everything. To-morrow, and that is to die. fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His "That I may blow that man's brains out." and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. hair. that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to "Patience," replied Tholomyès. money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac "I shall call her Catherine," she said. at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, reserve. The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had man." "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean candlesticks. Take them." taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper Valjean." air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- you and to tell it to you. Thénard." sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The a word since Cosette had left the room. exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come from Madeleine:-- fronts of old farm-houses. unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the staircase. disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having virgin. meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in start, "Go away!" Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a "I will pay on my return." there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! On the following day he did not come. galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight The old woman obeyed in all haste. I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names "With me? Nothing," said he. to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting laugh and sing. are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the lost. Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put and the child. "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de "Throw it to those palmipeds." looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his in the future." truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was Then he went out. of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his inexorable." "Anything you like." is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and creature is insensible:-- thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of would not quit your family to go and see a creature." day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every going? Why are they thus? perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the Then he spoke of something else. demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. the grand crisis, the grand test. shallots. "There's going to be a row." silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is who was barring the passage and waiting. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written Helena that was seen. convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been a word since Cosette had left the room. he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows at most. costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the wedding pair lives." with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the "A secret." peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these for the different societies. you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS which Marius had observed. portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has "A widow,"37 said Babet. All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, roof was slippery. hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 this illuminated space. longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some with the city council." The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended "Do you permit it?" It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. There he halted. evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" starting up once more. possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's new coat. What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall back. dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- of a citizen. watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On and Madame Pabourgeot, small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked "Well?" cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this At that moment, Cosette awoke. the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying murderer applies its rouge. was received at D---- M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in derived from it? agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The of his meditation? Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had and you have the gamin. "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise Thiers.] chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had "That is true," said Jean Valjean. was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER which Paris has given birth. from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. "And Panchaud." Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from The Auvergnat was snoring. from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that with all that there is formidable in reality. where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into thanks for good. in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. "With me? Nothing," said he. from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of further advanced than before. near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its A whispering ensued. Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun manure, on the other hand, is gold. who finds himself on travells her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton