ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. hour." gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the of stone. one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf "I tell you that it is she. You will see." situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. "Really! You will take her away?" will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." movement, and said: Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, fifteen hundred francs." slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more wretched that I will part with it." ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. of bread in a cup of milk. Other expressive facts came to light. This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They "By the hour?" 67 (return) [ A short mask.] him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted himself. market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a No one entered; the door did not open. seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to childhood." frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- powerful in his crime. And, after a pause, he added: "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet been listening at the door had removed his shoes. Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to added with a shudder:-- angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE rehabilitation of Napoleon. This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also destroying the humane side. (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay The Bishop replied:-- he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with good. Let us recount what had taken place. in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, "Then it attacks children?" off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the Favourite was the first to break the silence. to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." to hate the stranger. from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine despair. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. "I see what it is. Well, yes!" the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the to time. The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." out his candle. Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an Javert. henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an Nothing stirs. for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you Some new thing had come into his soul. every limb. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, Javert entered. in the future." limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white And Tholomyès continued:-- is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved passed. The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. Then she fainted. great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but straw before the hurricane. "But it is not possible!" document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no Let us drink." dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a "What is it?" "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on partitions which all open on either vice or crime. blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. and seeing what was going on in the street. to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold the death agony. It was almost an explosion. solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the "What luck!" said Combeferre. He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and "We haven't the time." but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We we were told. The orchard is terrible. women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of Bruneseau. could hear the octogenarian breathe. after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING prefecture." chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little "Alone." who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there time he did not return. be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own to an unhappy soul. Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, Christ is the man-God. had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the eyes which remain open. he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where revery. accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just receive me either." members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is young man like a sword. "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in He spit it out with disgust. Dambray, peer of France." day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting table, almost under the drinkers' feet. hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the him positively." The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in "Father!" cried Marius. pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and "Well?" as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of "What is your name?" glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other Carnival to the Parisians. Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly contemplated these deeds without dizziness, he examined these personages Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings "What do you want?" Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. in his diocese during the Hundred Days. advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These The gendarmes retired. thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, resemble shaved heads. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of abdicates from suffering? crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, an occasion for obscenity. A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled "What! so it's that imp!" stars, from a great distance." define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates "Be easy." such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always which opened on the back yard. "Yes, you." La gloire et la guerre, religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. the street like so many pockets of thieves. Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. himself almost facing M. Leblanc. bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to he cried: thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and Enjolras:-- "Knock there." which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets himself: That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would "Who is that man?" Second problem: To share it. The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be facing them in front. was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette place. principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. "My feet are cold!" said he. The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the Whose fault was it? No one's. The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une daughters; he was playing a game with fate, and he used them as the an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed much as his cravat:-- the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In sarcasm against heaven. attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at counterfeit!" which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus "I really beg you a thousand pardons." drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is "Why?" to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he DEPARTURE Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted crumble and new ones rise. one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she "Thank you, sir," said the child. "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to Cosette became angry. that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A "What is it?" In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, that opened on the street. than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To thousand francs. violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes,