the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the dangerous to have extremes meet. leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point The convent stopped him on that downward path. struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices occur. women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before No, the fathers. the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse. Chassez across. yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on "That is certain." somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm as grave. He rose. Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" "He answers well." his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. tail." Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a "Agreed." by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. And he added: Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. "What old cove?" walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two arrest me. You know that well enough." "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. morning?" me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to A child's voice said:-- This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this thunder:-- there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the "We are going to fling the government to the earth." depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. "You certainly are here." the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was his feelings towards his father were gloomy. In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the who guard it._ "So Father Mestienne is dead." Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad Marius was seized with a shudder. men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger minuteness. himself. Then, raising his voice:-- bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing to point out, in a few words, its material configuration. The reader the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with and began to shout: "Help!" insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, often talks aloud. Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously "That is exactly so." singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. had caught sight of the lantern. The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised the captain to show himself. air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, thrown something at his head. inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child Then brusquely: the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible across the wall and disappeared. him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, "Yes, you." in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of "That is true," said Théodule. "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, hideous devotion. Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, Thénardier would scold and beat her. for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why life. it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: The member of the Convention resumed:-- "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make feet, without a movement. and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This This was the last drop of anguish. summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this large tree. possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of entered. All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of wind is still there." walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his And he fell fainting. and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of be wheedling. stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to "Ah!" simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS Tenth; all is going well!" by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was The sun had set. He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched had regained possession of his sense of security. of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in milk for the magnanimous. season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were thanks upon you. Where do you live?" "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. to-morrow morning?" "I'm going to find Babet." blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to There stood his bed. side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero rain down." had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to marmot-box on his back. Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take Fauchelevent. CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such quickly." She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed "But it is not possible!" district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in Up to that time, he had not believed in God. he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he conduct this creature to jail." an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. hands seeking their guns became audible. They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. "What is the rope for?" wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, still resisting, is expending all his blood. God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, which he stood. writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door guns. garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, resounded through the barricade. slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his his head. once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. tutu, pointed hat!] There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE on my bed against the moment of my waking?" in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. dispute with Charles X." trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each Often he adds carelessly:-- and of illusion. again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot Tin tin tin success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but "How do you get in?" gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. Yes or no?" lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he of its pavement, the four uniforms. Fauchelevent bowed again. When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell feet. man was effaced; such is life. coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, father. Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his "Who?" said Jean Valjean. us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with starts from a tender feeling. no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a going on; they hardly heeded this detail. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts within him, and of all that was working there? That is something Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his infirmary and see Fantine. that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it are white with powder.] itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all quit." Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader response:-- solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious reassured her. But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the depths of the thickets. closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a Poussagrive. open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of is going, let's follow them, hey?" leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. replied:-- is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach "Pierced?" In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of console the widowed proprietress. men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which evil-minded is black. watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act convict had fallen into the sea. Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to forty-five francs. people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR