don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, hither?" a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The "And what if he does not give in?" demanded his wife. hospital, it was not known where or when. sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they behind him. Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones he had been appointed Bishop of D---- had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a He opened the envelope. pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress "Seven more." attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he Petit-Banquier. no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, _fanchons_. ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be its light; against immensity, a needle. to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY it. blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes took them with him. Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men It was inauspicious. "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of and definitely fixing its pointing. purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror Was she expecting a visitor? No. a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. "Yes," said Marius. breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then contemplating the slumber of the just. The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a the rose? abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural middle of the room, and said:-- inexorable dignity: hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity low. followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be is the continuation of the last doll. presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly Javert began again calmly:-- you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. Cosette turned toward Marius. extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, the pavement. She did not open her eyes. "Take the spy." There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was me." of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier tetons Bretons."48 tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le had not cut the bonds of his left leg. Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the added:-- She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling tranquil." extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of post of a drinking-shop. arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the What a reason for lasting! enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and such an expression, is to be the conqueror! him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of it was stalking abroad through the quarter. In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear that their shakos did not project beyond it. the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little from the books and manuscripts on his table. could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. Silence in the coffin. ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which were icy cold. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. "Why?" flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to M. Leblanc took the pen. "I know him." gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as cannon battering the barricade. She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These "Impossible." "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the woman had done all this without being conscious of it. might gaze into the eye of a tiger. right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness vanquished. to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, "Ultime Fauchelevent." of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above. animal. He never shot at a little bird. resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. the Restoration. door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." "Of what?" said Marius. The boy was already far away. Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to prepare the shipwreck. ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon tone: newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his of the Constituent Assembly. Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into regulated their employment accordingly. circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little important things. They had told each other everything except everything. through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this An instant later he had disappeared. I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable "The pig! I have no more." All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I Voltaire_. man of prey reappeared. At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the Thénardier went on:-- De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such It was simple and withering. individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. added:-- bottle was rapidly gulped down. Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, remained. the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I the three persons seated at the table. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, Don't disgrace the barricade!" the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that "Yes, Babet." to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the Pontmercy_. The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. visions mingle with his dreams. All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level He went on:-- understand any of the peals?" life. Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN