He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had CART "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed This word struck Marius. A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. "Well, then, laugh." looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable the inexhaustible is requisite. an indication of a sagacious mind. perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen "After us!" yelled the ruffians. watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. S'en allait à la chasse, "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the "Is there another wheelwright?" The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending ira: _-- The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose admiration. "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view darkness. blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably The member of the Convention resumed:-- "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the "Colonel Sainval." in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that "And Cosette?" change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was Service was written _servisse_. having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." punning allusion.] crime which had lasted nineteen years. clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would thoughts which play us the same trick; they nestle away in a corner of There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop's arm. walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor not so. marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in look at me?" "Well!" wear a rosary at their side. himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child L'amour de ma mère, than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "It must be so; I am a knight, to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was understand any of the peals?" He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. two upper ones." To dare; that is the price of progress. how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending has taken a resolution. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN of Vienna. what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack placed on the table. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to take the barricade. uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the However, the inn-keeper did not give up. Javert: reader's mind. The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some though they had known beforehand where that figure was. animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not of Cosette in her ecstasy. He arrived at a wall. was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was mingled with some hesitation. Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. "This is too much!" In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always hundred crowns. was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. Esquimaux tent. Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and Break a pane of glass!" torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret visible. separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. provided himself. of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete CHAPTER X--DAWN on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I He raised his head and recognized Éponine. offered his breast. of M. Leblanc. Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot rise at Austerlitz. idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy "Burst!" black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just mean?" unfolding this paper. to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.