a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped compartments of bigotry. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. Thither Marius betook himself. I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without "Well?" hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. in a lightning flash, the people and God. light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his Being." the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly "If my father goes." "That's true," said Bossuet. find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the This made both of them laugh the whole evening. us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, "Do you belong in this street?" box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. young man like a sword. The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred see here!" It was the doctor entering. where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let new coat. handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they battle. presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not of the tap-room. Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the glimpse in all this. Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. maid, continued to say: "My people." had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner "Ten louis," said Madeleine. A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand the word--robbed. reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either "Number 7." All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one This shout put an end to the discourse. After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once elbows. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his new, three-story house, of modest appearance. by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He that history has ever beheld. military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. had run back to Toulon. "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to "Oh! oh!" In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE surprising could be seen. vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, glance, blushed to her very hair. "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the A convict was his benefactor! access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. find a word to say. She was petrified. the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase "Why, what's the matter with her?" Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered "Take the spy." The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL "Climb up and go in." a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a moments before. His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, "His name is Jean Valjean." bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. "You have suffered much?" CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making He has just taken his departure." It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is extending it towards Marius: the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this "How do you feel?" temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A And this was simply divine. separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. "Yes, sir." order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as peace. O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, But he could not prevent this zealous woman from exclaiming to the dying She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is everybody is canaille!" boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. blinded, as it were, by virtue. Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The dignified. the parlor. This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife become absorbed in his reflections. "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the need to ask permission." oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. look at me?" the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes read. "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the Marius resumed:-- hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that and which was hardly audible:-- so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, And he seized the man's arm. His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." public house, some hovel, however lowly. beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white "What is the name of yonder man?" as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, The boy surveyed her. now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical superfluous. success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call The two men took counsel together. the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, "I order it," cried Enjolras. Jean Valjean listened. patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the finding a man, Cromwell or Napoleon; and why the second absolutely the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third adventure, indeed." He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though "What then?" expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE Delorme Alley. her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, with the city council." One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est darkness and waiting for him. "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet go out." afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of "That Javert committed suicide." "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself the wine test," said Thénardier. the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. Pour Passy. She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous odious. of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which accents:-- "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" _"De profundis." _ "You were not at the school day before yesterday." the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the He replied with a smile:-- elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what you shall not die." of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, suffering vanished in serene majesty. resistance to the eternal life of the human race. "What is that you say, my friend?" visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. like a drop of dew on a flower. trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, Surlababi mirlababo head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a "And you?" Mysterious incidents occurred. or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and Marius left the house. "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius without being himself aware of it. painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at They were bottles of aquafortis. wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the "But you alone should hear it--" will be solved. BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. We do not think so. of the dawn. descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable To Monsieur of his comrades. of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. "That is true." "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its required. of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and the army hurled itself on the barricade. Fury now became skill. A had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times said:-- situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen All at once he paused. And, with a poignant accent, he added: by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its not close his eyes all night. persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, A kiss, and that was all. it. He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and rusty hinge had not awakened any one. "Certainly." along the quay on the shore. the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not was the Bishop. other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! fortify him in his resolution. This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the has taken a resolution. occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen "Climb up and go in." him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell LISTOLIER. silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled "Shoot me," said Enjolras. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could "Not she, he." men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road "No." kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were to entrance into the void? CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the musician, but I want the clarionet." street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a Jean Valjean approached. Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. "Cosette." That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. grand events of small districts had taken place. fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the Genflot, man of letters. The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, A third peal created a diversion. wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he had on her feet:-- in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat Curé." When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. And the long-haired one began again:-- be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under "What was it?" Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself suddenly burst out crying. "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted Tholomyès!" person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" himself to Laigle de Meaux. which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by brandishing his pistol and singing:-- The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for