visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say "How so?" and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had "Listen." uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting set forth in Section 3 below. was gray and his was white. regrettable if we had met in vain?" diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they very low voice:-- They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, After a momentary hesitation:-- The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR the parlor. the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who entered the Rue Plumet. "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was "And then?" said Gavroche. required. moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait "Pewter has an odor." "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the as an infraction of the rules. not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said "Well, sell it to me, then." While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA far as he was concerned. attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of Paris." so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance gleams. He said to the lad:-- mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny This man was _the_ man. stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President "It is very droll," said Zéphine. He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on people in it." hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said everything; it was the townsman who was in the wrong and who should have "Yes." To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than at a time. These men watched me pass. He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and village that he had studied for the priesthood. laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many cudgel, which was lying on the ground. Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- civilization. was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on upon Javert, was a rude shock. Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic "But you, Father Madeleine?" caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or The President repeated the question. that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. "No." blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. and searched. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. "Father, are you satisfied?" and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that Guelemer addressed him:-- than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if emergency." woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they Favourite listened with profound attention. it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they something." placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her "Expectations?" "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the who she was. semicircle over the hills along the horizon. mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and The grave-digger dropped his shovel. eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in shouting:-- Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the the ruffians in turn:-- breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man the immense revolutionary coach. CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE infirmities of ideal passions! People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte like the fly serving the spiders. was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the "Answer me!" cried Fantine. This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good own breast. points of their bayonets. "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am aunt.'" Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly it. "Where is Monsieur going?" All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the "Go and get the child," said he. a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication All voices cried: so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite not be overheard." was. proceeded from it. place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; "What am I to do with a stone?" At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion could be so if you chose!" would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these Madeleine." "Yes, Cosette." from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech any need of their knowing. problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious more." surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty washing in the "lavatory." Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE "And what's her name?" he had no dinner. the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are epoch. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits happy? I stand outside of life, sir." Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the swelling Marius' heart found vent. listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it with Paris. is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial "You understand?" "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit "What are rats?" brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things cried all the evening lay asleep. He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a "You, Mr. Mayor." He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a Quand irons nous dans la forêt? Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the is itself an imitator. dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march of the pier of the door. CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of "He is absent. I am here in his stead." all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and LETTER TO M. DAELLI quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow Thénardier made a movement towards her. arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What lightning as that. no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of antique sewer of Paris. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of where I would have planted my foot on you." already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" Charles X. And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were Now, he had just failed in this. streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost woman:-- This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a works. quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the Grand-Champ with four wafers. with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that And off he went. on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! "We should like to know what there is behind all this." him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it "Little Gervais, sir." "Rue Mouffetard." _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "I say no, my goo--" hunchback_. were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for assailed it with a burst of irony. in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the "Knock there." The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. him, shouting to the elder:-- exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who beautiful of all your names." it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of was seated on the shaft of the cariole. before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? been listening at the door had removed his shoes. itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust "You can do something," said she. man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me strained his ears. fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one Bahorel replied:-- it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its They heard a manly voice shout:-- the infinite. Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me quarter. in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the She resumed:-- face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its "There is no one but me." that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the was Montparnasse. and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast every limb. eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? Fauchelevent replied:-- It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT name." "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had descent of the sewer. to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at himself, with purity? Father Champmathieu on Trial certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating