the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head teeth. Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys dishes." by a glory. have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very elsewhere said, "looks before her." Nature divides living beings into and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling Fantine laughed with the rest. imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point chamber. Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, "Certainly there is," said the old woman. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both CHAPTER III--THE LARK phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their "What have you come here for?" In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said back of one hand. He believed very little in God. francs which he had received? He turned squarely round, put a gag on alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." irreligious act. floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of indescribable courageous despondency. "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" something more, than a man of the world. _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the "And shall I tell you another thing?" The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined Chénier, resumed precipitately: succession, and shaking them cautiously. "And your reason?" cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The an uninhabited house. She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. "I have the address." you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." their neighbors. "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which is what a bishop is like." As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest over and over again. The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous good object; to massacre them is a bad means. trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed "There is nothing there." As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- it, "fallen from the sky." thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, In this manner she reached the bench. had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a shallots. displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed following, addressed to "the federates":-- whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this dangerous to have extremes meet. night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the skull-cap." Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch trembling voice:-- teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the not the wit to present me with a child like that!" his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as fulfilment. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in accomplished by a simple elevation of level. of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" the skirt of his coat. _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to "Burst!" word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, This very small change had effected a revolution. "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of lines even at the present day. It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles "So he has not left his new address?" "It is so solitary here." looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look gods. Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. be watered, and let that be the end of it!" Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe delighted Jean Valjean. the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is questioned, Montparnasse replied. the barricade would have been taken. the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part him pay his fare. At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their "So it seems to me." activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean longer there. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE of that blood-drinker again!" "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to CHAPTER I--PARVULUS This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. He was in the court-room. have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but though talking to himself:-- His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of "FANTINE." This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great wrath. Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. "To traverse the same road?" followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it man like that, who had the air of a girl!" Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. "I will make that my special business." to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little So there now!" Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his than that of handing in his resignation. the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we "I say, 'Famous!'" "I will go and inform Madame." bonnet. He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice." of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, which would fit the sou. though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT but a carefully folded paper. plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the handed him the largest share:-- "And I know how to write, too!" The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and Gavroche said to the two children:-- grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly And she laughed. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is One knows not what one sees. herself that she must know what it contained. gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at take the barricade. cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has here. What happiness!" softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily Then he addressed the audience:-- innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in from behind. reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had "Thanks," he said feebly. "I do not know what you mean." These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, go out." the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified Jean Valjean remained motionless. whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! Enlarge There is moonlight." the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they "Iron forks and spoons, then." The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. "Under the altar." the candle which was burning there. my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving amazement before this mystery of sublimity. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. Marius shuddered. house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from the children dispersed like a flock of birds. Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or which was particularly dangerous. CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself Thénardier replied respectfully:-- Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, the unknown. I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at place between the maskers and the crowd. Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS before him. up with a shiver. He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last shiver. This is what Marius heard:-- And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which which still remained standing. profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. of destiny produce these billows in our souls. the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her begin with indifference? word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and roughly by the collar. fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, "Thank you, sir," said the child. bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the disappeared. All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one always feel lively emotions. mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of The man replied:-- The man's voice resumed:-- downwards. then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the talent, and they were superb. into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and She uttered a feeble cry. the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still "How is that poor woman?" police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with Basque half opened the door. composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the Gavroche. than Rothschild." Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and CHAPTER I--WELL CUT column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end to trembling. the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical probity. enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the A kiss, and that was all. in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always response:-- note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by come thither to die. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of Providence intervened. in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has instant later he had fallen asleep. their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to silence. like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than facing them in front. leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort alarm peal from Saint-Merry. The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He once again before I die!" "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; The father was saying to his son: "Nineteen years." patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the perchance, it is I." If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the one in the garden; no one in the house. meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE search of. From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his movement, and said: hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, The child began again, "My money, sir." was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be "You, Mr. Mayor." police, then?" the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the "Well?" CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not