platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their "Why do you say _you_ to me?" "Monsieur Thénard." fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the He burst forth: anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, "What coachman?" awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the What is this ideal? It is God. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been passer-by. revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the the bottom of it. He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, heard. it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the very timid. Yet he was intrepid. His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go The policemen glanced round them. left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt and from every cloud? Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly stupid majesty which befits white creatures. Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, "Monsieur Mabeuf!" come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' whom you do not inherit.'" Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." fault. lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it noise. to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible his muddy boots to the brazier. order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about lips to it. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two adventure in the ideal. The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, some one whom one does not know. heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is the English battery. aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. "With me? Nothing," said he. the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). return. Drive it out better. side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task He kissed her brow. carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from "You are a student?" demanded Marius. At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: and it irritated him to have that within him. funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded aperture. obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a soul yonder which is lonely." and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the father? Why should he! himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of gendarme." of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." steps towards the door. with Cosette's handwriting. "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "Twenty-three francs?" details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE disdain the canonship. Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the light to shine through. a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is "My daughter--" without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from CHAPTER X--DAWN She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains Marseillaise. de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. he turned round. banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." there. blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from The traveller paid to Lagny. Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found Fantine laughed with the rest. gendarmes. gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact "No," said the priest. together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. they were making sport of him. a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor "The old man added:-- door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called understands the actions of Providence. He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" "Yes, but--" "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred proposed to her. Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of Favourite was the first to break the silence. harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has Cosette: chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been building. nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare will be solved. Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was humble. them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having human irresponsibility is mingled with them. from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in behind him. The letter was signed "Thénard." despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were cartridges; Marius bore the child. poet. "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely The certificate of origin was complete. monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth Cosette and Marius made their appearance. stone statue walking. saint suited this soul. "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to added:-- in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the "Immediately?" such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of the room. he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as She retorted with acrimony:-- Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean The barricade was free. Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at Nothing had happened. "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence Cosette With Letter was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his ruffian eighteen years of age. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. her." nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his proposed to her. "There are the little girls." the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the "Hey?" said Gavroche. our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of The Bishop resumed mildly:-- "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, have the honor to be, Papelotte. in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so Laigle burst out laughing. the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it strangling is! police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain caught sight of his man. There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of "Your sick man is very ill indeed." material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it for us." "What do you mean by that?" nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the "Yes." met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed halting-places. There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at "Fifteen francs." because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. francs were mine.." have already indicated this characteristic detail. their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our spot. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. gendarmes. "Poor, dear child!" said she. all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished wretch. This was odious. beheld, but it was grand. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; child. Then he turned to the elder:-- half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did They pressed each other's hands. which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that "Open!" said Cabuc. like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, her payments. Some months she was in arrears. sort of merry bombardment over their heads. And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all Rousseau." except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He back? "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be "You love me, then?" "How is your wife?" They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. A pause ensued. "No." to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, Thénardier still held outspread. said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not night. It was a headlong flight. had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration Faoucq. negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of love. off by the devil." way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant the skirt of his coat. Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered "Hey?" said Gavroche. That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower "There is going to be a shot to fire." female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. what you ask." bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from of the air, like trees and stones. him have only a wooden spike." appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even trifles of straw and cocoanuts. shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually provided. "No; Choux." provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this just fallen asleep. their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which Now, he had just failed in this. succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. "That is well, Father Fauvent." intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that "It is not possible!" all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the "Yes," replied Javert. bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has over. and I confine myself to that." It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops Another shop-keeper said:-- face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor The portress stood bewildered. admit it. There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that. Thoughtless and "Do you permit it?" modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him