be in the street. which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and worse for it. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no "I am here to do anything you wish." Christ is the man-God. "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of of powder. never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my terrible thing. into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it damaged travellers on the highway. line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- "Into the vault." infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the enigmatical farewell. The first effect was to dazzle him. "One hundred francs!" In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that which is still pointed out. fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. "This is too much!" said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle And he added:-- announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, only her portfolio and her blotting-book. clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and you!" to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few room. which is indescribable. the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep List of Illustrations great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- galleys. Grand reign; grand century. placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, strange composure. one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting women. his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never pursuers and himself. He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the All at once, the drum beat the charge. The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew vices and aspired to all crimes. and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" before him. exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been Exelmans quitted the procession. those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding turned towards the door. season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards "Yes, sir." "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent "That was what I said to myself." with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. The cart was free. a little after one o'clock in the morning. Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, "That's it." Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. "Why?" under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot windows of the Fine-Air. across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- "Fifteen francs." I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the revolutions, which are called riots. all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The Mont-Saint-Jean. In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- A heart-rending question presented itself. sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. to the general of the Lazarists. embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For alongside. children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." This is what Waterloo was. to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Fantine laughed with the rest. Thénardier replied:-- CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under person who killed Javert was Javert." All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. Champs-Élysées. this time all had come. Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, as an infraction of the rules. theirs. Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the receive me." then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I as with lightning. heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called in his mind. thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife "Two or three times." the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never "Yes, why?" to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to and shouted:-- be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier the half-open door, visible only to his wife. If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They "Bitch!" me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the other thought than your happiness." At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside Cosette." Orleans. young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe Did she mean to go out? No. Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. billows of the invisible; he shouts. And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he pay them, you have become a smasher of windows and a blusterer, and, at us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, strolling in the fields. in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, Fauchelevent caught the word. who finds himself on travells collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its PATER NOSTER history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says "Yes." man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution humanity." rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle A bécoter papa, maman." and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and morning?" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. had beheld her garter. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to wrath. girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the smoke. Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by not seem to be listening or seeing or living. Enjolras:-- Here a fresh crisis declared itself. Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few probity. of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? has any one done to that gamin?" "That it may rain?" He answered:-- as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. "Where will you obtain it?" much as his cravat:-- fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN "Is it you, peasant?" vivaciously:-- Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" The little boys stared at him in surprise. piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity I am not." through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door is its sewer system. to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: "I'm going to find Babet." The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as marshes. of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet must be that it is. like the scales on the hydra. plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Javert entered. give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. strolls. shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and right or to the left. been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of one coming." struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the thoughts which play us the same trick; they nestle away in a corner of we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. outstretched arms. the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the "Yes," replied the thin man. grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a Was she expecting a visitor? No. "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six giant. den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take "I, Monsieur le Maire." to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the important things. They had told each other everything except everything. insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" like that." _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually your hair tumbled thus." after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel "What do you hope, then?" resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. At that moment, nine o'clock struck. made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his Bishop's palace. He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is "Has moved away," replied the porter. itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula much did you say that you owed?" away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine more." whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." street. He entered it. He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- "And I," said the host, "have no room." would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was he felt nothing. the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in "M. Marius what?" Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with ready to march onward. Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with prison. "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which Javert. One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had leaving that hated and hating house. forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I once more profoundly calm and serene. It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish Then he essayed a desperate effort. especially commercial redistribution.