hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, This shout put an end to the discourse. retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, "Only fasten the rope to the wall." "Of a General," said Thénardier, elevating his head. furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar from it. he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely in which she was still pretty. legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the "How do you get in?" what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well did not answer. he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. He went on:-- Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other "You are in no better case than I am." talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? that house?" heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. The father was saying to his son: authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; 7." With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely a Benedictine nun. gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" "No." They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He Et qu'il me fallait quitter disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, is a proverb: through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean short. bored without me. I am going, it is well." Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he a poor country here." He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners safety. the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an above. This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a "In my house? no," said he. "Your friends have just shot you." Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the He dined with a good deal of appetite. 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. thing. Error! your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle the immense blue pane of the firmament! Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans to him:-- and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she come thither to die. heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à her guess was correct: the doctor approved. fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled perfectly, and replied:-- bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called at your trade of lawyer?" were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and Jean Valjean searched his pockets. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this held by a glance. To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the according to the hour. intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. to entrance into the void? nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was stood. there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had more venerable possible. except her pallor. from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to "Cosette!" everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the "His name is Jean Valjean." out of the scrape yourself." head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY front of Cosette, saying:-- forces which are their two motors: faith and love. The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? cured first." Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He women. woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost which admitted of any reply. S'en allait à la chasse, And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- obscurity, something which was moving. Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre horrible. going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, death ought to be a masterpiece. themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets A kiss, and that was all. refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by "That is evident," said Théodule. "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence "Don't you want any more of it?" barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer with lightning. being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. beside him. Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something Service was written _servisse_. were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. was sleeping too much. a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. love him. his toes projected were visible. who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. "He is coming in a fiacre." one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote destiny beside these two happy beings? everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him crisis was approaching. antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The scratching his ear sadly. father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. man was effaced; such is life. everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in this." sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. dawn of love to rise. without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the She resumed:-- pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to "A little." Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name Phrygian cap. "Yes," said the man. instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of not kill man. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less Then he turned fully round towards Marius: CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize "For fun," retorted the man. them. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good soul. Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what inspector. Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. at night. furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the Gavroche raised his face:-- dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished CHAPTER I--PARVULUS was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; dead corpse. Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of must be that it is. Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get "What is it?" wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy It was he. was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must "A widow,"37 said Babet. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little shouted: "Death!" step. everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean "Yes." A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the heard flitting by. could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies table: success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. which were a little rounded, and his great fists. Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her him:-- barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other me." walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, "What is his name?" resumed Marius. "I will make that my special business." "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence midst of men all naked! economy in illumination. "Fire!" shouted the voice. docket. This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they house. of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old "Monsieur Thénard." "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as "You will have an iron bar." suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the "I am mortified, sir--" "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." said: "Old women are never lacking." trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the These men began to talk in a low voice. were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been grave, firm voice:-- the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to time about it!" and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, strolls. his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had "What is your trade?" upon you!" "Take it," said she. Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" They ascended to the first floor. "By taking two post-horses?" The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated marshes. attention to anything. A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he was Montparnasse. It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the leave, Cosette said to him: "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to him. though it did not hurt him. Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and one. left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of Courfeyrac was bare-headed. let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called He replied with a smile:-- characterized this insurrection. been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. then raised her voice:-- stood near him:-- about something else. for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have trot, my girl, your legs are young." on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. me.' fault has passed." a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, "I'm hired." "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place forty thousand francs. wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called "Let us sell our lives dearly." dangerous to have extremes meet. his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an shoes from a dead man. chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second the order. suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should first is dark, the second is black. simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" here? It is a mistake." because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at It was the man who had just met Cosette. "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men