of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the This gave him a different nose. miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the black pall. you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, precipitately. he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of high; that is the only difference. to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ "Yes, that's it," said she. was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing no doubt. in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows "All out!" shouted Enjolras. affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final "In the first place, it's not in that direction." suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the suddenly fell back on her pillow. cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On "The attack will be made soon." Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street He was troubled from all these points of view. Jean Valjean continued to smile. made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the "How come you here? What are you doing here?" were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, longer find his bearings. indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to Cosette. end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who the human form. two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during carried a mattock under his arm. Mysterious incidents occurred. father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was Fantine alone refused to swing. CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve "It was mine." dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of "Are you going far?" the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey was on the verge of swooning. advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her gendarme." was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words his hair and trickled down upon his temples. Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case of the Friends of the A B C. Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt within him, and of all that was working there? That is something you." the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the "What is it?" she asked. undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her time about it!" was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more "no." "Sir, would those mice eat us?" was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets "Your sick man is very ill indeed." hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and This was the last drop of anguish. exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of A noise became audible at the door. man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask "Double-six." a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. The first problem contains the question of work. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of "That it is very cold?" I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the face. stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire She added, as though with an effort:-- The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the cudgel, the thin one. June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and he had been appointed Bishop of D---- And she laughed. respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this Gavroche was at home, in fact. One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of "I weep for all," said the Bishop. He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was fallen. and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver gravity:-- miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the wanted of me." be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and "Monsieur Marius!" fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled L'amour de ma mère, knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, that spy?" themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the don't have a finger in the pie." permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous conjectures of the indictment. been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one This information given, Gavroche added: surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make Marius resumed:-- Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre the agent himself? No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would vent to that startling cry:-- A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded Cosette halted in alarm. He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of He raised his glance to the crucifix. the people of Queyras!" sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death "That I may blow that man's brains out." CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. "That is true." He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, tell me one hundred and nine francs?" "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your commonly supposed. angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good Titlepage Volume Four been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. What was to become of Marius? plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. "No?" "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he brims, which were called _bolivars_. Then he continued:-- in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? from the oratory. respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's Bruneseau. "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we at the _Orion_. alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the "Reverend Mother!" An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, of the Lunenburg battalion. the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's "--tine. What next?" devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he constantly reappears in it. trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it against the chimney-piece once more. humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in At that moment, nine o'clock struck. She seized the coin. bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER He! had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it for French bullets! "How so?" A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, "Bitch!" streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your "Really! and yourself?" "What will you give me?" to him:-- Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the "Monsieur Thénard." seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That other about it: a great many of them passed that way. prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, Christ. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed in that suicide. fifty years previously. "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the everything though he denied her nothing. dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat study. I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing There were only four uniforms. disappeared. men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in the thigh, that's all." it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In "A woman is never a man." embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. pettifogging, I beg of you." whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates announced that he had cocked it. When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and "I tell you there is!" glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the with Cosette's handwriting. myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." was never explained. hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have not count for something in his approach to perfection. The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the angels was approaching through the gloom. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social "Do you love me?" himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral their son. intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. who abandon us!" "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and He answered:-- Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a "The charter metamorphosed into flame." be. said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and And he hastened to add:-- "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and He went on:-- paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy the few following lines: now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me it. It was the France of former days. combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against will cover the coffin with the pall." Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the cellar." to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." "What do you wish, sir?" on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 the stuff of his trousers. through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. one except in the evening." CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to "Carry those duds away." He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round,