the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the He turned round. go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from Cossette Sweeping Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with "Set out?" Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was not be able to start before to-morrow morning." the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. There is moonlight." the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and of Vienna. those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it CHAPTER II--ROOTS which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to to Gavroche. grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who MUNICIPAL POLICE Enlarge Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact them." the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? the candle which was burning there. grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy to-morrow. At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I had been able to remain in France. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in Then she departed. ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just the door. corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff He took breath, smiled and resumed: Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed required now." regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why He raised his head and recognized Éponine. opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some respectful:-- sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people choose to say--" view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would "O! Sure!" owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the was lying in wait for him. throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a To peck at pa and ma." powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the "What is it?" phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean "A moment later he added:-- seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. perfectly secure. four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between poisoning London. Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old "Yes, of course." If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All had been there:-- Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. "You should have knocked." who still recall the most minute details. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild "But who the deuce is he following?" Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, Grantaire. stir, or turn her head. your very humble This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a All voices cried: and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier Then he glanced at Marius. the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the The father went on: "Here is a mattress!" at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the "Reverend Mother?" "That is true," said Jean Valjean. many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert humanity. the four lines which follow:-- preserve out of respect for the truth. CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this crocodile will furnish some idea: he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them voice: He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may "I don't know anything about it." beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which the room. trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, Brujon?" "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg make a speedy end of all. from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite barricade, all breathless, saying:-- de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was Frontispiece Volume Four the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND "Why don't you have a cat?" amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of as though he had just heard it:-- day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had revolutions, which are called riots. itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the M. Leblanc made his appearance. Valjean's sign. the language of wretchedness. "Only what?" uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find "What's that?" cried the father. vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when speed." years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was Enlarge destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under "An idler." suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of alas! to go out. here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would COSETTE HIS ADDRESS of the shadows which enveloped this man. was Montparnasse. of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners An instant later he had disappeared. and said:-- hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. "I will wait for you here." away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or alive. dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated not." question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- Merry." the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to "I have not seen him." of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, thief because he is known to be a convict." task of isolating the elephant. and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and promised so brightly for the future. handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a the lover. "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to "Yes." hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he face can afford were there. leagues still to go." thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The succession over her soul. had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in monstrous:-- and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian "I think the likeness is strong." Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from that room, and that would disturb her." of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five thousand francs. upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity "I entreat you," said Marius. And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father to ask you something." "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense "That I wish to marry." warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, be an object coveted by all. that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he Trappe replies to Horace. he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that have unravelled that skein. shall see hereafter," he thought. CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but centimes." His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. blossomed forth from the twilight. will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with shook a counterpane out of your window?" On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have explanation of the first. the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the "Hey?" said Gavroche again. am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the description that he gave: "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; inspector. unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith required. love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what half-farthings." a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran This made both of them laugh the whole evening. The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his leagues in extent. Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage white between. law had gathered an inkling. "You know that we are about to die." that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be The poor mother bowed her head. the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia "No." for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this "Not even of you, father!" All at once, he stopped short. by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army "I," said Javert. "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer."