a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. "You understand?" gendarme." Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young overturned his basket. all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? She obeyed. the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot in chambers where there is a corpse. wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never "Where is the Argenteuil?" large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. glittering on the table. had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on crazy man:-- CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, Six stout horses drew a coach. "'With my road marked out for me.' How could he be found there? dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set served by domestics of the same stamp. those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it "At the _Bon Coing_." where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. "I am your father." out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said PREFACE The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took right do men touch that unknown thing?" In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And He was absorbed, in fact. his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of gazing over it at Cosette. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no bedroom. Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two him have only a wooden spike." mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, Man is the second. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." revolution with a shade. stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. who chances to be there! to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of wished to caress and thank it. The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." in his attic, in order to pass the time. always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the shouted: "Death!" pained to feel that perspiration. and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. "It must be closed again." them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to facilitate this tale. of his comrades. It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without Marius did not understand: "A pupil." dithyrambs. five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been respect. tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. As she ran she felt like crying. planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most "What do you want with No. 7?" revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one This elicited an exclamation from the workers. "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority Light kindles. Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. Bastille. the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." "Untie the gentleman's right arm." line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests like a drop of dew on a flower. creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must that is no reason for giving it away. ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and During those hours of waiting, what did they do? Then she fainted. "Well, half shares then." labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon And, with a poignant accent, he added: Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and "Oh! terrible drugs." nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. to her. The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to is the continuation of the last doll. The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less take charge of the Cougourde myself." to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- faint light of liberty which men call death. clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you "Father!" said Cosette. house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." that "she had ways about her." tiny scarlet stars. one. on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those this illuminated space. implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite to gallantry. It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their misery. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. forcing him to it. principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, half open. shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded person who is seeking to recall a name:-- four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his "What act?" "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving had wept in nineteen years. as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as "So be it." work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all "Of these men?" of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of the environs of Paris. stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to She adored her child. what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say "And what is his name?" examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated "That is good." His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If shook a counterpane out of your window?" here. What happiness!" few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de lost. away with me." The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He square. The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of I know all about it." And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let The others were men; these were women. to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for poet. let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, done." was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is there were many ascents. the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be eyes,--these men conversed in slang. CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself not ill. history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his glance, blushed to her very hair. This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called with the infinity on high, is called praying. After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the L'espace d'un mâtin!"