insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not children." of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his say timidly:-- and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in twelve francs. Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. that purpose." hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth of Valois. out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in Fauchelevent replied:-- "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one misery. round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, longer there. Cosette." the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual wicked man!" feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the morning." of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. limb. her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no He had just touched the bottom. and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle The two men took counsel together. highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was As we stroll the faubourgs through. you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to of bread in a cup of milk. the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some these crossroads. sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, Jerome would be heretics. first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a "Where is the entrance?" However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native stone statue walking. coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, There, at home, what do they do? Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. Great strategists have their eclipses. ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two icy perspiration stood in beads. While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. "White!" said he. over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself This smile was not ended when the report resounded. even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This there. He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes "My gun! Here they are!" makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and can be changed in them." CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring And Dahlia exclaimed:-- the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you to God. poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round ebullition. could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA She called him _father_, and knew no other name for him. at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which "Agreed." In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. millionaire of stars. fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his gendarme. Alps. You must be cold, sir." "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, And he continued to advance. the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. prison corporal. he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, attributed the divers little works published during the last century, working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and "You have not given me anything." to-day, with justice." be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having clutch on his hair. it may be, the utility which it contains. at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat is a proverb: of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this and shouted:-- oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. The door opened. towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. "What?" demanded the prisoner. carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as dressed in red is disagreeable. Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- under their coverlet. been deceived. talking aloud to me." at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these to put a sick man on his feet." turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant punished. Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad "You are a police spy?" launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame and a good fill!" door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. "I? I said nothing." the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with blood. who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but francs_. that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in The Bishop resumed mildly:-- All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic "Down with you!" said the man. is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- Gavroche began to laugh. he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty "What?" looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, eyes were still closed. "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the "Why not?" The man half rose. and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. gleam of light fell upon the earth. passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after by a good horse?" die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still his wants. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or and is worth about three francs." It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending. Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the PATER NOSTER the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of bourgeois. the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the only the law when entire. No! no charter!" de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine "What is that to me?" towards him. Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that come to see my ancestors." from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of Courfeyrac said to him:-- him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the that it searched. chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. enormous, ENORMOUS dog." his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, was stationed above, the French army below. the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself "Is that all?" said she. useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's downwards. the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I Valjean. that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS "Yes." aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it CHAPTER I--PARVULUS for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter the dark, at the door of an attic. at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed expansion. tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other and I confine myself to that." This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW the wall is much in use in Paris. [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge forest of Soignes. surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust they had contained but one soul. applicable to Waterloo. top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the "What address?" himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. white between. This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that matter. He replied:-- held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were cook-shop was in a bad way. transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the well say six hundred thousand!" of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand even when stained with blood. arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man "I say, 'Famous!'" being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in He replied:-- were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into "And then?" said Gavroche. LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES dust. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the "Then give me a drink," said Javert. departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence took advantage of the fire to cook them." lacking in the house. element enters. Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they "The cowards!" Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the gay; one is tender:-- convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. deceived, and grave errors have been seen. eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. galleys. Grand reign; grand century. this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. with the father. It was well that he did so. He was free. As for On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet and some knaves. "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later "Have I not Marius?" been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and boulevard. nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click So there now!" Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity "You shall have the address." emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to procure a dynasty. "That makes forty francs." impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair