that pane for you!" nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision "Monsieur--" her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that Fauchelevent's turn had come. Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be sheer fatigue. perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, and she was entering into life. "By whom?" happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, on the nail!" It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; upon the ashes on his hearth. relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step and is worth about three francs." "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner was on the verge of swooning. Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never dawn of love to rise. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, wish me to receive you here." Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and Combeferre, who was standing beside Enjolras, scrutinized this young began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again the IRS. to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and Marius replied with embarrassment:-- Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They joy of having served the human race." brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt said:-- lied abominably. gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, "On my way through town, aunt." replied, with assurance:-- watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond "You are a police spy?" created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the Let us drink." sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly in?" sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur short as it was. are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on "That is good." would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find "Why?" Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the low. to him. paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their pudding. susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I destiny beside these two happy beings? certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all "At your feet," said the voice. a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, It is darkness, and it desires chaos. Its vault is formed of ignorance. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." "We keep this inn." From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, "Monsieur?" Javert gave that profound start. louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to Then she fainted. "We are in it, too." oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate again. them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the dressed in red is disagreeable. seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings And he fell fainting. whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: Don't disgrace the barricade!" fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail "That is just." escape. on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's head. In this manner she reached the bench. "In your place, I would let her alone." "If you set two men to work?" chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of "Because not one will go away." is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the "Her grandfather." between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost were icy cold. without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben "I see what it is. Well, yes!" in case any one should be looking at him from behind. seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate lighted?" the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and "And my boots." bed. While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the "Catch hold of it." the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she "You will remain with us a week at least?" man of prey reappeared. distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July with you." The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind "You know well that people refuse me." Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as He glanced at the cloud. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he they will say, 'She must have her child.'" Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his "Father, are they still men?" indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. half-farthings." Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE have more good things to eat in your basket." himself to drop into his chair. point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have ears. afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, of the lower classes. this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an Jean Valjean approached. die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, lose a single syllable:-- altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. Tutu, chapeau pointu!