possess paradise, we desire heaven. information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, o'clock in the evening. No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: made him a sign to look behind him. Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. people in it." men!" everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, J'aime mieux ma mère, ô gué! CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED and a stove?" and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea gratitude. "Why?" he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." CHAPTER X--DAWN close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if could not be distinguished. And she offered him her cheek. Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I "Yes," said she. Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, therefore, never described. going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances do nothing more." Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth the world except Marius. All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. gallows; this was done." orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. have been cut for some time. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. maw of the clouds. back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined have just given you fifteen hundred francs." of her mouth. one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or assailed, scaled, and never captured. "That old fellow?" "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on Blachevelle persisted:-- absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra "Who is 'I'?" He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a Courfeyrac said to him:-- established there a free dispensary. Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this other, and probably a volume of the same romance. your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected "Which one? the old one or the new one?" from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those "In the galleys at Toulon." the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last a child. only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, to himself:-- The reader will recall them: onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the fold it." yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we finished, he placed the key in the lock. The bolt slipped back and the talking politics. and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he and he condemned it also. The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made chamber. quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not Jean Valjean had not another word to say. He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, monasticism. several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's In this bed Cosette was sleeping. but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put "Sir?" he began again. children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be rather than to gain further light. it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. "Immediately?" girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert "That is the concern of the good God." at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue for him was to die. to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the NAPOLEON IS MADE alive; he was bringing back the child dead." Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. He eagerly broke the seal, and read: Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." they are in!" is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, them all day in vain. with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed There is no more beautiful legend in existence." "In the elephant!" "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at in the morning?" stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. Forward march. same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low perfume and with poison, which is called love. Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. harshly. chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Still, he felt that he had lost time. Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " The Bishop sighed deeply. insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the a return of a river on its course. and the prefect. The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. And he took off his shoes. room and said: to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres To whom? antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish weeping:-- regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" "Listen." "What is it?" The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. Jean Valjean made no reply. spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled He answered:-- order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs Prouvaire." when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous grape-shot was a conflagration. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' He paused; then began again:-- one is going to die." fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had complaint? been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether "Promise what I tell you!" Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house made like that just at present.'" Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are Jean Valjean continued: one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained nut no longer held firm. He was in the court-room. once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he He took breath, smiled and resumed: after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. pallets, which were empty. His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange her hand distractedly. misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "Why not?" street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is "Which one? the old one or the new one?" gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. "How much?" he demanded. but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise hand had relaxed and had let him go free. "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; "And when the vault is open?" "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a the diver may disappear there. That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of I was born again." Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of "What is it?" almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive but it fits me!" In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very so long as he has money?" In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, assailed, scaled, and never captured. popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers M. Madeleine replied gently:-- Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among the central committee." He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that prison adds to wretchedness. passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, dared to criticise one of the master's acts. saint suited this soul. "I'm going to put these infants to bed." monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. tomb. These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, woman had done all this without being conscious of it. would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to to death, made his escape twenty years ago. Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. "You bother me," said Éponine. "There are three of us." has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over be seen: he was not a young man. twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his we were told. The orchard is terrible. where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean Verrerie, No. 16." the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said possesses grandeur of soul. wretch, by that innocent being. "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are "Reverend Mother?" contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to marshes. English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN he had expected. hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- "Ber--" his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have This time he had understood. Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she but could not. though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, "Now, defend me against my husband." creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the depths of the thickets. few inarticulate oaths. There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. "You have just time to get out by taking to your heels at your best This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE "Never!" letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to existed, they would have been invented there. The prisoner signed. He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it table. hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon who is gazing into a tomb. gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the holds, suicide or crime. morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep Night had come. "It is my little one." shouting:-- five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy Guelemer addressed him:-- waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could She returned to the bench. "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know The man inquired:-- added:-- fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. Plantes?" "Shall you come again, doctor?" soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, profound conviction. nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his times,--we know not what to do." first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." There was but one thing which was possible. What was this man-precipice? better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" pray at all. hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally Zéphine.