decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the hand." In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side M. Madeleine rose. "Never." peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of a serious man: Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but PATER NOSTER tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light seen the two delinquents. Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was "Where do you come from?" fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of ought to keep them on all the time." are the arm-chairs?" into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, leagues still to go." "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real that accordingly there was no danger. nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her listened to him. A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in combination with lack of discipline. saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have boulevard. Jean Valjean had not another word to say. 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; was lying in wait for him. Paris." Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was lose you again?" and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair rapid but very low tone:-- work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, made. Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a to dwell?" "What are you going to do?" their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black And she withdrew. account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up it. by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. "What is it, sir?" from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. "By taking two post-horses?" had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like "Who are you?" he demanded. Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. plan of travel." brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear his hands at the guillotine?" village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a At length the old man stammered: on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery the captain to show himself. "Of what?" said Marius. lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of "Why, what's the matter with her?" wrote the letter is in the antechamber." august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- still more so for the English than for the French. bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the "Welcome, citizen." Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. Lark." splendid melancholy. With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a It was Marius. "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the people in it." first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My "Too late." by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius thousand crowns." the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." "What does Monsieur wish?" Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger one except in the evening." second soul, the right. was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" that side of Paris. It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the from the sun than ours. point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." "Yes, they are fighting." wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere was about to fall. Then he shuddered. isn't a sou." twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the which is indescribable. monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not written names! Thrown into a hat!--" "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. "To Andelys." way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" Javert replied: examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing "Father!" opening. walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. interdicted. counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or nicely with your young ones." the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors "What concern is that of mine?" hand to a police spy." confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her "The cat." of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated his wants. in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in "Why not?" besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" "Carry those duds away." horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; for you!" thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was "He spends the night out." that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, From these two things combined, the public power without, individual As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a presence of the porter of a factious person. resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in "What are you doing?" the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should "Father!" said she. "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; Thénardier would scold and beat her. gamin. Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." Marius did not understand: "A pupil." fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's they say if I did not go?" And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near man the Bishop of D---- was. with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously new coat. This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed word. proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed convalescents." The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" myself, too." Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. reserve. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being is nothing but equal nothingness. You have been Sardanapalus, you have behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how "Do you want me to lend you some?" truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. Mélas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession. place. chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. life!" and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and And she had replied: "This." without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and catastrophes. "Whereabouts is the bed?" night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a Why? not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. gendarme. before him. patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a "Climb up." us something to breakfast on." collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up the hall was sparely lighted. "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell He hastened in that direction. case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. a black hole. "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; "Immediately?" grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once "Twenty francs," said the old woman. morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." "Precisely." adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his "That is true. Dictate. I will write." single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a convalescents." Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, woman. therein mentioned; that is clear." first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a ball. establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question "Fire!" replied Enjolras. then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- "Informed against me!" world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and day. He was as neat as a new sou." PHENOMENON Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his M. Gillenormand went on: it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. revery. scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not called Mother Assumption. "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, which still remained standing. "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that assailed, scaled, and never captured. he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women combat. the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The grandeur of Æschylus! a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. hours of weakness. On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in as his trousers. "You are doing well." love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so "Come have a drink," said he. and too prodigal or too protecting for others. other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had