the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the that that was what he ought to do. He could not. about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did "In your place, I would let her alone." five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius fence. Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, VICTOR HUGO. father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her Pas de fricot. I have no food. out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more himself next door to a sepulchre. selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation a serious man: he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes million for the town and its poor. capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. "They will kill you." "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is She was dead. was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished not wish to pay, troubled as he was. been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes It was the voice of Jean Valjean. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that exactness is kindness, he was exact. the following:-- as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON saint suited this soul. The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the he was that convict." pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand changed.] linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" "Something." passports. prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's things. behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle "Will he return this evening?" Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; becomes extinct. "And to hold your peace about everything!" between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put cudgel, which was lying on the ground. yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. "Expectations?" Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a cart's place to protect him. He paused, and said to his daughters:-- into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each grand events of small districts had taken place. convulsive element resembling hope. happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters "And great haste is required." Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in "Then give me a drink," said Javert. "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. "I am going to die presently." through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated them. "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, who is always laughing." away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was he no longer had any, he visited the rich. "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. in motion. that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the quarter. wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To other something moving through the smoke. Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; la Perle. apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of One last word about Fantine. She was shivering. that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. crimes! And what faults! and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her "Yes." Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, "No." vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large added:-- swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of first time. "I do not know you." detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening "Yes, sir." passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was Madeleine turn round. tiny scarlet stars. thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He CHAPTER I difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they Là branle le squelette horrible So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him him. "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. so long as he has money?" think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; "Well, they were right." that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be and gave them to the priest. He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived a great deal of obscurity. Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which been for the second, into torment. "Forty sous." We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This should be governed only by science." Brujon in La Force miscarry. bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from Marseillaise. an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, rather than Ballesteros in front of her. agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, archbishop of the diocese. are using up our ammunition for nothing." there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived "I, Monsieur le Maire." that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in profound anxiety. "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which "You will see." engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing window. "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word And, with a bow, he said aloud: jack-screw. was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few Jean Valjean began to laugh. he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last obscurity. weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." Monsieur. And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the Montparnasse answered:-- Rousseau." make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend morning." He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." "Business first." ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit "Everything is as usual." "So it seems to me." man. Each of us can profit by it." with boots otherwise than like mirrors. had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had made. idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or eagle. In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. "Heavy?" would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things Then he turned to Cosette. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" his head; he had not noticed it. In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that the fire." from the books and manuscripts on his table. job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit He flung in a third shovelful. But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not barricade. M. Leblanc took the pen. order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is It was very narrow. became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his cries. girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no He approached the grave-digger. Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell a manner provided against unexpected accidents. brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I Marius sprang to his feet. crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is He answered:-- If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are he cried: "What! There is not room for one more?" he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb is it?" to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." do not abandon the people." having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal "Why do you change your name?" The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; question that I came across." years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the uneasiness. the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance reduction, discarding all hatred. them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at above. which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a "You will get something for dinner." And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is nothing!" children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, The inspector muttered:-- for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a ball. knocker and rapped. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN remember. nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from "It must be, said a warrior." trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's director of the hospital. This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its Go there. It is not hard to meet him." Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that "What is it?" was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. Éponine made a final effort. Marius had but a step more to take. upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. the heart of man. immediately." around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock.