let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the rehabilitation of Napoleon. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that "Here goes!" said Théodule. seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers tiger, and fled. eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand Enlarge to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those to-morrow morning." boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of exclaimed, "What frights they are!" causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a Only grant me one favor." "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. "What are you doing here?" The man inquired:-- one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near the waistcoat across his breast. disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of "That I wish to marry." rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two managed? Where is this coffin?" required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the dangerous man_. in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is "Fire!" replied Enjolras. Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the strangers had made their way into it. of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we January 21. M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in fence. the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities possible to look into this little paradise. The mother was there, one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- how, and was not asleep. "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, resumed:-- by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers raised his head with an air of stupefaction. towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. on its guard. it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; He remained silent for a moment, and then added: instinct, and recoiled before heroism. Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. cabriolet." still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the "Silver?" Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an "He will die," said the porter. reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, to get out." It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower And he added: Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done This was the man for whom Marius was searching. Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch "Don't you see his air?" How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly shot." Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, doing of the King. said:-- paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It was not mistaken. She had returned to the Rue de la Chanvrerie herself. BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, "Not even of you, father!" me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed "At Saint-Lazare." daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is prison adds to wretchedness. with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his "What is your profession?" WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. appearance in battle array at the end of the street. They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her Then he exclaimed:-- birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and Frontispiece Volume Two They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, being very rare in vegetation. "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this doing of the King. forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. trouble to get this one." That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will to her. companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, nothing. They held a consultation. creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. His revery gradually became terrible. which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was gleams. He said to the lad:-- Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was notable portion of its extent. "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, "Help! Help!" Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the were perfectly happy. one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- "How far is it from here to Arras?" necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, bed. exclusively to her care. "They made beneath the table She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The "You are the brother?" he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had "We have confidence in you." miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; Then he made the military salute. "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, feel how hot my hands are!" resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, prison corporal. each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him He inquired:-- Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that ninety-seven men, and the lancers of the guard of eight hundred and Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the "I am very cold," she replied. felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this The little boys stared at him in surprise. I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. his horse having tumbled down. travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY "I cannot give you any dinner." Esquimaux tent. regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She well say six hundred thousand!" it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people dead corpse. hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting Cosette shuddered. He added:-- from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, angels. newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, "Yes," said Marius. what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or Gavroche caught sight of him:-- fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing You're a jolly thief! I'm your humble servant! Bravo for the good for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and "Yes, that's it," said she. Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of his head. reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and father? Why should he! Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! "We are talking business." She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. conversation:-- to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a were not made--" "Sir, would those mice eat us?" boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an vaguely, and said:-- done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not his steps. following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation wounded by the want of respect of logic. only for me. That said, he crossed me off." the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off near her ear:-- required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, Being." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. like that." the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been angels was approaching through the gloom. "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks tranquil." "The deuce!" vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon CHAPTER I--WELL CUT up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, He! It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the waiting." from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and It was the man who had just met Cosette. that is the example which nations need, that is the light which love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to the waistcoat across his breast. She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at heavens. about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates heap of rubbish." and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the Then he turned to Cosette. more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must bows, and demanded in a curt tone: "Why all?" said Enjolras. secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly vague blue light. sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The She adored her child. appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. be?" come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through Fauchelevent replied:-- over. "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which indiscreet and curious:-- telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris This made both of them laugh the whole evening. "He is following on my heels," said she. alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds phrase in your letter. You write:-- "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to After a momentary hesitation:-- The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, again. impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly pained to feel that perspiration. called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice playing tricks on each other. A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT agony: Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence "At the Madelonettes." only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. authorities." tell himself. by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." Juvenal. meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very the man who has never lied. had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her one feels that one is falling? purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or Below the last line he signed: into it. and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping be worthy of it is a matter of course." and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the