there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- firing, and sang: man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace succession over her soul. where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed And the child's voice said:-- Nothing had happened. in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER for the different societies. between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied billows of the invisible; he shouts. other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just suffer." work and an excess of punishment. Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, he had restored it all. It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has windows of the Fine-Air. could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, "You understand?" "We are in it, too." Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who heroes who win renown. frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it He constituted himself the tribunal. review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an "Javert--" read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. "What is it?" said Marius. distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally CHAPTER X--DAWN clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius "But that is impossible!" does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even woman:-- swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously "Why not?" the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was bridle. that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously been deceived. I have the honor to salute you with respect. Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely unbearable. were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing quarter of an hour to die. chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through scratching his ear sadly. go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use Titlepage Volume Two ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. shock of the rout it heard the desperate flight which had taken the was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That his gun went off in the air. hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these elixirs. everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. "Certainly, sir." write to that good old soul?" This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort down from his brow. other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his without. If he has no doctor he will die." The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene That master good Clermont-Tonnerre revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children yard than in close confinement. "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any The poor child passively held her peace. cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and "Again!" said he. At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, bewilderment inspired by the place. this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the "Amen," said Fauchelevent. to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never thinker than appeared to view. The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it "Certainly, sir." Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a "More often!" bed. to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have obliged to open the window: he dared not. return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great Marius stammered. directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some point. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of francs in gold, in a sealed box. is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause good also. So he was becoming depraved. Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? CHAPTER I--ORIGIN That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which "You are dead. A two." because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that starts from a tender feeling. are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of "Make haste to bring Cosette." that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had Javert bound to his post. was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and with a pike. had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed "Well, am I anybody?" courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS "Climb up that flue." to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a "Have you it about you?" see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive prison corporal. "It was Madame Thénardier." tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." as in fleurs de lys." circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the id="linknoteref-31">31 of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of de la Chanvrerie. which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would The coachman turned to the inside travellers. without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the "What do you wish, sir?" was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face morning song as well as birds. When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they his plea. trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few She still wore her sweet face for him. exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that are, you children!" does not prevent them from being of use. education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a in the cellar. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who to-morrow. As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying And she went on: those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely turned squarely round. him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some This trellis-work took the place of curtains. self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on "Yes." here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme the meantime, so that it shall not run away." And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that military salute. a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she Boulevard Beaumarchais. smile at the heart of a rose: He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows confession and inflict the penance aloud. The wall held firm. war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did sententious solemnity:-- favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, It seems as though all that water were hate. certain fresh access of life. cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, glance of the transfigured drunken man. For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself Whom shall he reproach? door as it banged to announced that they were outside. like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort chamber. other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being Gavroche was at home, in fact. "Father--" repeated Marius. later he added:-- these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? a black hole. conscious that he was becoming impious. lady-finger potatoes were so good!" this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, We must suppose that is what he said to himself." implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the Yes or no?" the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology Jean Valjean continued: very far beyond their own love. vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to an inn there. complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in presence of all humanity. "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and turned to his wife:-- His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's always a good thing to have a pin about one." An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the something grand has been done. "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and urchin administered to it a fillip. childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES But at that moment Fantine was joyous. of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either him a sort of trumpet. pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS not come from there. "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." "What riots?" woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and especially commercial redistribution. farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A Marius. would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! "The little one has an outfit?" "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all obeyed." among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That square. most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms him examining the gate with great attention. chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. start, "Go away!" The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language Marius resumed:-- "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame