department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of hand to a police spy." the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find there. recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the legally, death puts an end to pursuit. in the horizon. "To die!" exclaimed Marius. All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses required now." a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that neck as an infinitely delicate thing." Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even "Who's Théodule?" farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there "No." linnets warble in the trees. trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its The same silence. charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, them. the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal basket. "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." that spy?" Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have still read on the wall in 1848. post should perceive your presence." chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct as lift a cart like that on his back." weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- us. He will give in." whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of prayer,--these are great and mysterious radiations. Let us respect them. crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded "No, sir." through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the This information given, Gavroche added: is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old "It is done." unprecedented one to him. "And when do you start?" moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island table. were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. least. of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to Marius could not repress a cry of joy. suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its "That's good," said he. she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been Some one said:-- "For my part, I shall not return." Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." thousand years ago, "March on!" ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted And after a silence she went on:-- has taken a resolution. not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were "Go take your seat," said the President. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in The Jondrette entered. reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a that they forgot that it was fine. scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this I could dance if any one wished it." bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and man pass. At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, plateau. character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper dream of Jean Jacques. suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of "'They are more fatigued than I.' whether he could not discover some shelter. halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been The investigation had begun. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the her hand distractedly. Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! than a cemetery. CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, at this branch, feeble as it was. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS "Then content yourself with obeying." could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal This is what she read. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The Fauchelevent to Gavroche. set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at _"Tso-maraude."_1 which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy The barricade applauded. participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and us enter, nevertheless. woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her And Montparnasse went on:-- be wheedling. Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a Montparnasse?" In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. "Yes, there is!" day." treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and war. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled Nuncio lived. As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it "A cannon-ball." laughing and lyric. in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of Marius. land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" "Fifteen francs." There, again, he considered that he had been robbed. the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the with the infinity on high, is called praying. as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it Suzon), who went mad. "Show him in." "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very "Play!" said Jean Valjean. Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under movement, which enlarged the opening a little. been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] francs. must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue were icy cold. supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! "Everything is as usual." found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth Another shop-keeper said:-- followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself Such was the situation. "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley people who smell bad." blue eyes aged four and five years:-- pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education of her husband, turned to say:-- which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call "however, let it go!" situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. the parlor. wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which "What's that?" cried the father. raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in "What vault?" "Forty sous." "Because I shall have to buy something, too." qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but "Yes." "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in blowing out his brains. when women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul; a soul of a rosy and airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal "Who nails up the coffin?" The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the the names, one finds the subject." A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are village that he had studied for the priesthood. CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his life. the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, glimpse in all this. lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the "That's settled," said the grandfather. tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the M. Gillenormand resumed:-- "What address?" fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same front of that vision of joy. He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" The man inquired:-- "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to And who, with gentle hands, do clear on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine Only . . ." little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, FAMUEIL. "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account "You can read it," said he. misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. ground-floor. _The Mother_. How is that, my child? it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails for the flies which his dog eats!" Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose Minette. soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, ailing soul. The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. "That is understood." and twenty handsome maids, General." water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines The Bishop turned to the man. generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of "If I set ten men to work." say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret him with a gloomy air. He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of some person who is dear to him. People die of that." BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented "He told me that he was in good health." them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made be?" swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally "You do not believe in everything." From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper Éponine turned to the five ruffians. appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in superfluous. She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, her down there without waking her. though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was plan of travel." What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. All at once she paused. waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was extending it towards Marius: [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of The Thénardier woman hastened to him. our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. 67 (return) [ A short mask.] right. the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from The heroic child replied herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette