grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that cats, pursued:-- time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. of the eleven thousand devils." which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, certain fresh access of life. Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, which is indescribable. A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that "How do you get in?" of bread in a cup of milk. was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, LETTER TO M. DAELLI profoundly. "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, "Angel!" said Marius. that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. have had them." the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to "Do you know German?" quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. always a good thing to have a pin about one." carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom Then he turned to Jean Valjean. chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman accompaniment. pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his And who, with gentle hands, do clear concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. the hospital. the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which table. Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that "What, Father Fauvent?" high as the houses. of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. perfume and with poison, which is called love. I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of "Knock there." wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you girl. traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother not hear it. She continued:-- always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is had recurred to him. Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance One of the mattress ropes was cut. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow hid themselves a little more thoroughly. "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with malice or stupidity. Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT celestial forms." might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From Give us back our father." starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean "Of what?" said Marius. sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. will perform miracles." perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. permit of recognition at close quarters. God." A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the herself. He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he gazed upon with joy. Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings "Who?" said Jean Valjean. Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on "Turned out," said Javert. All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was "What riots?" this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some The President addressed him:-- Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the knocking." we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. black night. Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues shoes from a dead man. I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" of that blood-drinker again!" bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I meant, when he said:-- While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a VOLUME II.--COSETTE who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the evidently elsewhere. navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right She was still trembling. accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink said:-- hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time was nothing to her. at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll a failure gazing at that triumph, love. "Yes, they are fighting." of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which pleased. The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. "I know how to read, I do!" were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the He felt that he had been stopped short. told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was obliged to open the window: he dared not. This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love would not quit your family to go and see a creature." it was impracticable outside and in. veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern "That is true," said Théodule. clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered You will deliver Cosette to this person. was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now Fauchelevent bowed again. seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a "How long will it take to get it?" it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face passed. Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my space of fifteen years. had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that who was sleeping therein. maw of the clouds. weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love "No, sir." They replied: been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and itself which creates them. full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. Cosette turned toward Marius. "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the not so. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from sadness had been possible to her. which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman The man's voice resumed:-- Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over "I will breathe." "Sir?" antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall "Immediately?" comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one speed." to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; "Have you clothes?" all that horror. numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the Jean Valjean bent his head, as though taking note of this, and sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always me about mamma." began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, shiver. Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, Mirliton ribonribo. carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell in order not to have his feet in the water. They did not hear him. had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He She murmured:-- halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean moment, ladies." "That is understood." "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, To dare; that is the price of progress. In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible "Here; this is for you." guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. "I will obey." "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, right. real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue said:-- the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered interested in learning. good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the in communication with each other. This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the him that M. Fauchelevent is here." Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the become black. the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a and daylight have arrived. was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the "Say on." well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." Armé, No. 7." that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are And, from the threshold, he added: "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. had lost it. The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. else. his knees on the wall. traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed and returned to the barricade. One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it Thénardier was a statesman. forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? He laid four louis on the table. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in brought in to testify against Thénardier. strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was There are six of you; I represent the whole world." gravity:-- Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth CHAPTER I fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, He went on:-- Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a he should arrive after all was over. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate other, and probably a volume of the same romance. that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb visible. CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." shame and with a pain at his heart. "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, cannon. diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." Christ. Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR past with the future.