promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. "I am the convent grave-digger." yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself ingrates, his country and myself." On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly The letter was signed "Thénard." This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and communion?" recall where he had dined that evening. Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, corrected. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, garden and we are done for." melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old "Have you the keys to those two doors?" from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la walked on again, then listened once more. vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause This shout put an end to the discourse. inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of which had not been apparent previously. of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. "And what good does it do to know him?" Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both in the horizon. a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in "I do." interior of the elephant confusedly visible. all associated files of various formats will be found in: not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back heart. in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates "Oh, yes, father." She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should Holy Father, Pius VII.--" was lying in wait for him. "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly subsists. ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the immense! stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was time. chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that CHAPTER I barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost either intentionally or accidentally. Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS Thénardier was a statesman. my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it capable of exclamation:-- Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in He continued to advance. artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip of the jury will form their own opinion." few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- turned to his wife:-- was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found perceived neither Basque nor the candle. gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most "Come along with me, young 'uns!" If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French that they forgot that it was fine. "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." said to her, "Follow me!" blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action curiosity. "Ah! Babet." It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when "Yes, sir." did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is exclaimed: CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is questioning. abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the "Who won the battle?" CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and "She died at daybreak." the bottom of an abyss. repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man "Well?" Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's the South. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other "Come! the bourgeoise first!" Cosette herself. in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- compliments. What is the meaning of this?" which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I "I." longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard She murmured:-- settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be "Have a care." Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by he had three francs left. and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered with a pike. which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account wanted of me." little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian this melancholy strophe:-- He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for "Yes." of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do once more. their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the alley where Marius was. Marius closed his book, then opened it again, redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that naturalize indigo in France. shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the explain it. with me." earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is "The vault under the altar?" had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's "Cosette." However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which ships of the line. colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, peace with himself." Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to "Well?" choose to say--" her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, take the barricade. told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send The woman remained motionless. whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to "How do you feel?" scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would tail." which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. "Monsieur?" lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to fixedly. consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has "And you?" heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the "That is good." Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING larger with the proud light within them. august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is roof was slippery. inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as private." Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all "Beginning with my father!" stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared "No." half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has longer eyes; they were those deep and glassy objects which replace the repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, and the difficulty of procuring a passport. blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's must enjoin to silence. say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death Or a miller would call out:-- Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. village that he had studied for the priesthood. progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings "It is the Saturnalia." Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over "Here is Cosette's education already provided." "With me? Nothing," said he. Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the drama as a piece which one does not understand. the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to "Long live the Republic!" "You're nothing but a bastard." "Why, get out as you came in!" At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, den. woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the he had beneath his eyes. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to "With her injured hand." That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable "What will you give me?" On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- Progress! lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note down from his brow. itself on its guard. At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet mistaken for a book. Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. So saying, the usher turned his back. consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a had turned. "My name is Eight-Pounder." the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door "Bread and cheese," said the man. habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last name." define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to Enlarge in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many an old fool." through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a hungry? moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this "And my boots." being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the "Yes, Cosette." smile is God's alone. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. "I am very cold," she replied. Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed a sovereign manner. of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. crimes! And what faults! passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb "I don't know anything about it." Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all "She will not turn round." fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the Javert went on:-- made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed "What is this?" said the traveller. On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue he, the intruder, who interrogated. becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. respectable old man. rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] their oblong casques of leather, with brass hands and red horse-tails, man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him "That's true." in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and been for the second, into torment. "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they "He is an ex-convict." Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the jury; it was evident that the man was lost. the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, And she put ten louis into his hand. beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow consent. We will drink. After work, never before." finger on this compartment and said:-- shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- To-morrow will be peace. injuries to dispense each day. If she had not had Cosette, it is certain The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, everything. drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the set forth in Section 3 below. silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his his peace. "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend the bottom of an abyss. had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the