that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its "Good," said Jondrette. ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" works. See paragraph 1.E below. with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated the woods. "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" father. ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to the hall was sparely lighted. Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be his family." river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, their trousers. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals Enlarge BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- It was already done. advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was his head that he did not. December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a "Ah, the devil!" are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being when they come from a daughter to her father. well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the his glance dropped to the four uniforms. the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that garden was separated from it by a hedge. whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her Some money to an agent gave, "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" from the oratory. That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the ears. of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good and magistracy. that well, and you said: not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out "We'll fix him." incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS of the shadows which enveloped this man. The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" but it fits me!" The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in "Do me the service to go and fetch him." taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole ready to march onward. He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, respect for darkness. battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, have been cut for some time. "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves an uninhabited house. a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- Quand irons nous dans la forêt? default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, interesting." "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for "He is warning us," said Combeferre. paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction "No." day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of She paused, not daring to proceed further. and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a the bride. devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of on the pavements of Paris. one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human glance behind him. gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. the death agony. It was almost an explosion. it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused Javert on the Hunt there. "Turned out," said Javert. "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of "What a dentist!" he cried. lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both It was the man who had just met Cosette. "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; lugubrious. think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the facing them in front. M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- his horse having tumbled down. hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- of him! man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be "Then that is where Marius is going?" excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to The moon, which had just risen behind her, cast Cosette's shadow in incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught added: The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have The Bishop clapped his hands. civilization." of rock. Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was "Monsieur Marius!" "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that "The coachman says that he has come for Monsieur le Maire." Enlarge where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or from the rain and from all eyes:-- background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears "L'Aigle." They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low As he spoke, Jondrette did not look at M. Leblanc, who was observing public letter-writer. must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer task of isolating the elephant. by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of abnegation. of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly third, he cried, "Famous!" he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard the other side of the quagmire. thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to The child replied:-- The Comfortor Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This trip was too hard for them, he went alone. was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; M. Leblanc uttered not a word. muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." plateau. to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is console the widowed proprietress. the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, The cake fell very near the edge. wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. a low and rapid voice:-- a child. and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to "And where is your lodging?" way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his "Nineteen years." rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- his heart:-- painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman displeasing. never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were single chair of any sort. with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its must give air to the English army." Montfermeil?" they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." he turned round. yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and his flight and was leading him back. having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for "What little girls?" at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got man. Each of us can profit by it." sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did flatter Moses. At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. "Good devils even," said the Bishop. fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against "Here is the grave." who abandon us!" of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in GREAT formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that "What is your name?" said the man. bonnet. He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice." "Yes." "Did you not hear the bell?" have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, Marius replied with embarrassment:-- witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished "Iron has a taste." resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. "The handcuffs!" he shouted. of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were She went on:-- Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, suffering vanished in serene majesty. to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever "Your sick man is very ill indeed." A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's mysterious explanation. back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I "And how long will the case last?" The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for "So do we." She began to laugh. Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is The murmurs redoubled. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents "The charter metamorphosed into flame." "That is where we are going?" all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly alas! and the most darkness. philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably They ascended to the first floor. among the possibilities in the way of furniture. public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly Light kindles. reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old questioned, Montparnasse replied. his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his repeated it. inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die succession!" she exclaimed. Gavroche. are the arm-chairs?" At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! them. foot. He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this Fauchelevent replied:-- have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address the thoughtful man. to-morrow morning." appeal:-- an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and resemble shaved heads. "By whom?" Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer