it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, for his country, and the colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set enchained authority is condensed. caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these brought in to testify against Thénardier. Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft "All out!" shouted Enjolras. which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I Thus their life clouded over by degrees. where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, "Yes." on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in woollen stockings and blankets." href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the the other side of the quagmire. allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other "Is this your little girl?" "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. of the fruit only arrive later. corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals to Gavroche. calmly:-- gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that Titlepage Volume One herself once more on her chair. He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in "Keksekça?" astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state everything. On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." Gavroche retorted again:-- In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should "Well?" his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- that your mind may be set at rest." and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed grumbled:-- themselves, he said, "It is a pity." Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted cabriolet?" after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off and cocked it. Matelote and Gibelotte received them. that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in trot, my girl, your legs are young." so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man "Enjolras!" "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the What? over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which himself with Boulatruelle. Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began was thirty-five minutes past eleven. of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was Brevet, and Chenildieu. beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night 6th of June. himself in the future. unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally in a growth of nettles. horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on "Why, it's the old lady," said the lad. "Good day, Bougonmuche. I have one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies "Who governs us?" not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions the dawn, he said: were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette silver wire and orange flowers. compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but of iron. Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. upon the ashes on his hearth. before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful "And this is the way I save his life!" skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque as they passed by. rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And "A little." who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which pedestrians. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. one else. First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed that for?" To God. Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." "Oh, you who are! Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom Jondrette exclaimed:-- good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- "That is just." It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, happiness within, results social prosperity. cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no of Paradise. de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the their trousers. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself "You certainly are here." We must suppose that is what he said to himself." "Mr. Marius!" this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, partridges. "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. table. Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What where she spoke ill of her daughter. The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in they must kneel. any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established says: "Phew!" Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for straw before the hurricane. the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should thus. Ah, wretch!" The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they from the suburbs sustained the artillery. coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does "Really! You will take her away?" over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told frightened. "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost "That old fellow?" Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the which are, to-day, probably effaced: the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, Suzon), who went mad. complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which about to vanish in the dark. To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and "I tell you that it is she. You will see." streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day Laveuve. one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to close to the workingman, the second to the students. more." On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without And the whole barricade clapped their hands. than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed It was time that this vast man should fall. When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she to see her face in the dark. intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's shadow." allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. Once Marius said to Cosette:-- the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been certainly unexpected. M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot sheer fatigue. was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something frightful hands!" Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope La gloire et la guerre, Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and Bossuet burst out laughing. was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young Englishman." It was conceived as follows:-- by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of "It is so solitary here." _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." "I have ten francs left," said Marius. of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and L'amour de ma mère, BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE The door opened. "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but A noise became audible at the door. "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is In this bed Cosette was sleeping. he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly thrown back on the centre_. An enormous battery was masked by sacks of "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" "On your knees." in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." Then he called Gavroche:-- this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. He eagerly broke the seal, and read: exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets I am not." the houses. "Will you take yourself off!" Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his This is the way things went:-- good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. Enjolras resumed: was ordinarily cheerful. She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added girl. again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, gone to get that mite of a child?" "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child no doubt. What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of which diverted them greatly. reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY and limpid, and offers no obscurity. were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him chimney-pots. The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived a reading-desk. Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the longer there. scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to the bills for them, etc., etc. with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. "Fauchewhat?" Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might often talks aloud. What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the "Then it attacks children?" the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean dangerous to have extremes meet. which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the "Ten francs." poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance;