do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden Rousseau." "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, He set out on his way once more. "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost elections. There was a tumult, then silence. which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered added:-- Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father "Are you alone?" least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and "My cake tires me. It is stale." to the gloomy horizon. there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." "Bosh," said Gavroche. The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS up and replied: "Javert." look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. "But you, Father Madeleine?" Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine the first man is desirous of shirking. of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs five leagues. portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No "Play!" said Jean Valjean. Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps head struck him as decidedly suspicious. a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, had that Night." a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either VOLUME I.--FANTINE. existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards society, a terrible slope. "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will "No." Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means halting-places. to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the will pay as though I occupied a room." view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted while:-- window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the CHAPTER I--WELL CUT "And what if he does not give in?" demanded his wife. This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a "It was Madame Thénardier." "Why, get out as you came in!" a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La growl. well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic were perfectly happy. catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to Madeleine made no reply. it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the It was not worth while to place a lion there. the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" will perform miracles." Enlarge heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the preparing. "See here now! Art thou coming?" could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden "It is very droll," said Zéphine. thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The "Angel!" said Marius. the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING air of two boys. forehead. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the "What do you hope, then?" Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on "By messieurs the wagoners." threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, to draw a long breath. He went on: we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there "Bosh," said Gavroche. was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished "Adieu, Madame." It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former CHAPTER II--MADELEINE insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little is! The idea! I want to see my child!" fifteen hundred francs." "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing The vagabonds. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." "Calm yourself, my child," said the doctor; "your child is here." When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did Then it was terrible. what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we "That is possible." "White!" said he. revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and warm once more. The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the to his cave.] forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the things. A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many It seems as though all that water were hate. sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. to enlarge the aperture still further. read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. A few words more. households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had him, shouting to the elder:-- Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter illusions. man the Bishop of D---- was. obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even out in minds. The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier most deadly insult. cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor "What if one were to rid you of her?" philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, "By the way, where's that bread?" "Where is he?" convict had fallen into the sea. without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this glance died out. look about you," said Favourite to her. a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which resumed:-- Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; husband she lodged and fed her young brother. One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't "No." Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the of M. Leblanc. strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous He was lost in conjectures. always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal of engulfment. opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall statue. obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. Blachevelle persisted:-- relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass Orleans. Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black M. Gillenormand went on: This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the barely audible breath:-- impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the crowd about it. "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He The wall held firm. quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin Wellington had drawn back. week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a "I'm going to find Babet." with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices "It was I who told Basque to remove them." those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of with the cavern? "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. Tholomyès went on:-- riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to on each other, they paid no heed to this. Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The dash out of the window. girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable. Combeferre would have of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at it." added:-- It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall the world should be happy. "Yes." Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. cudgel. been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten gendarmes. scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. priest. have had their birth? Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed CHAPTER I--WELL CUT and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. And, with a bow, he said aloud: having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule He went on:-- occur in parties. may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, He gave the door a push. the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean The sun had set. "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to fashionable. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the lovers. slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the himself almost facing M. Leblanc. suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound of life been established between this celestial little creature and that longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way wood." suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, "Are you a police spy, sir?" Enlarge moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that Marius exclaimed:-- apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?