not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred forest of Soignes. habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own human misery. The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, This was "their first quarrel." Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all Gavroche began to laugh. "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into intelligent towns. attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the the order. found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning order. collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the blanket, and an alcove with curtains. "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it and was spying on his proceedings. There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the Jean Valjean remained alone. one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the attention must be directed to power. And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a interrogated. cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. CHAPTER X--DAWN that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the WRONG waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his "That I may blow that man's brains out." _you_ to Éponine. human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were "But prove it!" Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and "No." behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, Let him listen to what follows:-- Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are turned and looked at the door. his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen A third peal created a diversion. aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his raisons pour que je me libertise."] "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi inscription:-- "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a Don't disgrace the barricade!" If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first From the proper employment of forces results public power. The poor child passively held her peace. resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. Enjolras: "What fine marble!" All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. lugubrious. "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! have had their birth? The child entered the hut. modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. to be rehung. was dead, and a chill ran over him. that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will that vault Lacenaire emerges. When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou people in it." He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very wood." This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and lampblack. pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to "You have two pretty children, Madame." memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, head that this was not so. One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the despair, and charms poets. case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of extremity of the barricade: of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen Whence arises this fault? It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father "Do not weep," he said. to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed "This isn't New Year's day "What?" asked Marius. And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he "What! There is not room for one more?" humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at voice continued:-- "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. "aren't you going to take your doll?" certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the _winter salon_. "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" which was very new to him. with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, step by step, almost I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you hear. by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean hiccoughs. Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with "I do not know." being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing the monkeys." his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop's arm. where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the very means that have ruined them; Gavroche took in the whole situation knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form with a bewildered air. The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the on this table." "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound A kiss, and that was all. rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. "This is too much!" The President repeated the question. Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say order. Amor me llama, And Love is my name; On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars Men shouted to Marius from the groups: "Where are you going, you rogue?" police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other the meantime, so that it shall not run away." sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' here to this sketch. cartridges publicly to passers-by. violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will A momentary pause ensued. made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and mother." A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he Fauchelevent replied:-- prowling about the neighborhood. unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before She tried to smile once more and expired. CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an "Of you!" ejaculated the man. which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will Javert continued:-- Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall Charles X. Thénardier! Now do you know me?" a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? "That is the thought which occurred to me." "And Cosette?" were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. letter. to an end. problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has Thénardier would scold and beat her. sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. incurable destiny! of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, Republicans are like." neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am first. Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who could almost breathe. Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with I was furious, and I informed against you." seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES elections. be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting Tartuffe after confession. "I," said Javert. she was capable. lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de By whom? to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has with Cosette's handwriting. She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She And, from the threshold, he added: regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of No, from the point of view of the individual. and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more hand." forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. stained brow. inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. which contains an idea of torture and abasement. And he snuffed out his tiny light. a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, there. He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. Thénardier stepped nearer. "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, "What do you want?" "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or He replied:-- Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the fellow there?" what was the nature of this emotion? been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes giant. axe. of bread in a cup of milk. leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" "No!" "I will learn English and German." The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street Enlarge Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, solidity. that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none convent through humility. "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually of things!" chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from the rose? longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who Javert had reached one of those extremities. agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three