first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that "What coachman?" it was least expected. the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so "There is a stone to be raised." He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, suddenly burst out crying. Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. "Whither are they going?" C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good He wrote:-- The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you "Paris in Pantin to-day." Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was actually followed them. Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been the rock. going?" frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be "Have you clothes?" "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first The barricade applauded. "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on the window, and nearest to the fireplace. "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an board ship. the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, been listening at the door had removed his shoes. stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said bobbies?" a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, This outlined the catastrophe. Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be think. I can do what I please about it." cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the "Really? You knew what I was called?" inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same million for the town and its poor. inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between "Booby! make her your mistress." figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. Tutu, chapeau pointu!46 a warning." on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an thither. ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled and spend the remainder of the night. we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who pavement under his feet, but only mud. bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real "How should I know?" between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- "I adore you!" the King of Rome?" "Monsieur?" A very sweet life began for him. When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the thought he had seen was the face of Javert. arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping A silence fell upon them. The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and Javert continued:-- shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. nut no longer held firm. distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; WRONG the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere Adoration. Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them "What?" "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. shouting:-- the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic "Who goes there?" said the master. That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was village that he had studied for the priesthood. "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" And she presented her other cheek. because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and the ideal. old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light come thither to die. Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the "At Saint-Lazare." a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not post of a drinking-shop. Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. "It's I," said he. through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. up his horse. on. haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether "Too late." charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He thread.' with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had "Every one is in the family." joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having "Well?" she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a lost. was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost its light; against immensity, a needle. CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE amid the shadows! time he did not return. Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking out of the scrape yourself." great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. had passed that way. "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. "No. I knew it before." The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN "Come in," he said feebly. be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was suddenly fell back on her pillow. of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who "There are three of us." His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel work again. closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, "I thought he was buckled." feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, these two men parted. The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted "Yes." their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those them back." stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon the barricade and wounded several men. still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness,