priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it of the Constituent Assembly. human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the "'With my road marked out for me.' thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and man. visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION "Cosette." had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, she did so:-- "An independent gentleman?" A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out crimes! And what faults! The prisoner signed. "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth "This is too much!" themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on thread. all that horror. the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. Babet took Thénardier aside. should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished "Is that all?" said she. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort "We'll warm you up." She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf boots, you five-louis jade." multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the up his report to Lord Bathurst. actually followed them. art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness are just like old friends." was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the Enlarge Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall take Marius' place. of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave "That is evident," said Théodule. "The slab which closes the vault?" "A moment later he added:-- "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; which is waiting to be put away somewhere. Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by meant to scratch, and she lacerated. successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I A convict was his benefactor! profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. His daughter did not understand. At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as from it. Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at "What was the number?" In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's "The dramatic artist, good!" Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the unhappy woman?" CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, the wine-shop noticed it. of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped "Does no one volunteer?" He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is "What! so it's that imp!" "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, "Who can this yellow man be?" make haste. do nothing more." warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, presence of all humanity. was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on me ten sous." was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of "Shut your peepers!" are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and Marius looked at the thumb. sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." had turned carter. unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. coldly:-- The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a "What is your profession?" Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between adventure in the ideal. water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had "Why is their bread so bitter here?" and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to premeditation, and she was condemned for life." entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of "Yes," said the man. accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, The wicket opened. know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had "I," said Madeleine. peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become from our own. "Tell me where M. Marius lives." "Take the spy." this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government and watched their play with a melancholy air. Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and face. the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your I was going hunting!" and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off exactness is kindness, he was exact. thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old Night had come. which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the people have you at the present moment?" beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in "Yes." to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he above. shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in centimes." the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by "That is well," said M. Madeleine. and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal roughened with brandy and liquor. He continued to advance. good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by "Yes, sir." letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. "To sit on." word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in wanted of me." and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds remain happy. threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. Grelotte, Lolotte! and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become "Embrace me." CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one "Yes, sir." My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " one feels that one is falling? enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, grotto." He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto." Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in have had them." of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those class-room through which he was passing. and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The existence. deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. taciturnity was of the beaming order. "Well then?" CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS "With me!" said Marius. his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? am!" is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed "Is there another wheelwright?" was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S "No." that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed make a speedy end of all. road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his Then he added:-- CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account them. He resumed with solemnity:-- with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back "Where is the chief?" Bookcover clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED glanced around the room in a sort of terror. "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" they must kneel. "Yes." them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, shouted: "Death!" "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance who is gazing into a tomb. the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the "Oh! That's not all." change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of "I'm going to find Babet." intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had done." nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, "You will get something for dinner." mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or his position. was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door dagger made its appearance. taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to was imprinted on his countenance. the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began CHAPTER I--WELL CUT remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. The inspector muttered:-- needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, and the Pont de Jéna." "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is bees. His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as "You?" fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of The stranger said tranquilly:-- What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great "We have confidence in you." "Hougomont," said the peasant woman. "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him