this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER doubt already far away. find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where produced, and said to the cannon: "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that Jean Valjean listened. the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, "Here is a mattress!" that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. and he said to himself: "It is he." Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the can be changed in them." confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and "And she will hold her tongue?" breathing, a prey to her thoughts. "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, A man entered. inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole GREAT Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY "No." "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the the great cavern of evil. him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did this. "You have murdered that woman." his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- Jean Valjean stammered: seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one "More often!" had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at woman:-- The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and air. barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric and he condemned it also. it melts and leaves the branch quite black. appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. Gavroche said to the two children:-- woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that length she cried:-- CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made Copyright 1887 get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell "Why?" which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more meat-axe:-- behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, square hole like the hatchway of a ship. but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not everything. this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great And Courfeyrac added:-- watered the whole garden. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. still open. "No." The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which it was impracticable outside and in. Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at "He is wrong not to come to-day, since I am going away to-morrow." This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl laid her ear against it. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole Cosette turned toward Marius. Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they paying for it." summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." brain confusedly. thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you nor in the shadow of an army. "Is that all?" said she. his words: specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am a word since Cosette had left the room. "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to She thought no more about it. me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, table. greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. qu'il ravissait quiconque!"56 Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, "Why not?" loves what is great. Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face and cocked it. of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not Marius and Cosette. "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' of man, love. Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that