twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty of honor as to what they are perusing. Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this something of paradise in that death." make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, the candle which was burning there. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years "Not for you, father." a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance not slept either. There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. "What are rats?" Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had the dark, at the door of an attic. door will not be opened again." now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, low voice said to him: watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some "Whereabouts is the bed?" jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen battle-field. pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all the door. an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of stormy. bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape says: "Phew!" elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about Thénardier was petrified. Rousseau." The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. add:-- medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and they say if I did not go?" love. Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the country, his paradise. of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so when she said to Jean Valjean:-- once more. CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. "See! there is just room." street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but "I get down here," said the man. in them. insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. increasing. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was than Rothschild." Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the prison adds to wretchedness. eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, into the service of vanity!" white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion immediately." of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. This made both of them laugh the whole evening. so?" in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at LETTER TO M. DAELLI "There." boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. "The slab which closes the vault?" lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into Bookshelf Let us try to say it. Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined floor, where it stopped. salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army 59 (return) [ Mustards.] An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, "It is midday," said Combeferre. bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As to have patience. Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! to don his uniform. inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, LES MISÉRABLES lugubrious stretches. thought. no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for that side of Paris. and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. things. and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the of a starving man. However, after supper he said: And she pointed to Cosette. Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with Gavroche immediately began to take observations. trip to Montfermeil. a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep. fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but M. Leblanc:-- man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am The sun had set. Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of will go." violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, Author: Victor Hugo "That is true." to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over The fifth man was saved. BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades "Of what?" said Marius. There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and him with a gloomy air. Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" "This is my place, sir." "Come have a drink," said he. had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" Montfermeil?" CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION And she withdrew. coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A "You knocked him over cheap," said he. For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the becomes "a mental conception." beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I "My fortune is made." The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was appeal:-- blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his M. Madeleine replied gently:-- The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an After an interval of silence she went on:-- eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. preparing. This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of abysses as well as evil ones. aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to "Put something in it." "I love you!" said Marius. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. raisons pour que je me libertise."] vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had I recognize him perfectly.'" He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he And then he fell to weeping bitterly. fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a remain?" lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, regrettable if we had met in vain?" We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put "More often!" get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to with me." On the day following that on which these events took place in the house pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal swelling Marius' heart found vent. Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This vaguely, and said:-- was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close Monsieur." the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not must give air to the English army." Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of Gavroche. very poor young man who was called M. Marius. fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, good also. So he was becoming depraved. fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All Thiers.] and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic "Is there another wheelwright?" herself once more on her chair. She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty coughing and laughing at the same time. The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street away a cloud. too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on No name is to be read there. "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the child who is carried. wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost and stared intently at Marius. "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is "Very cold. It is snowing." paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the wore in the galleys?" let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another movement, which enlarged the opening a little. done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred moments before. sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and "And my boots." was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, his plea. "The old man added:-- invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and interior of the elephant confusedly visible. "Keep on your masks," said Javert. planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers Perpétue and Sister Simplice. "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." "Plague take it!" acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly "Let us be good fellows." bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our "Is it cold?" first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no Red Hot Chisel The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the Saint-Antoine. Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said the diver may disappear there. it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if Jean Valjean stammered: Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out "M. Philippe." cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you Marius resumed:-- the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple falling through the window. "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean eyes which she could not see. "This is too much!" "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest considering it under all its aspects. plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, "Grantaire will you do me a service?" before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed the hand, and together they directed their steps through the and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise footsteps. Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself sarcasm against heaven. reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not of its pavement, the four uniforms. did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is sarcasm against heaven. "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et "Immediately?" Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry "I say, 'Famous!'" One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of