lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. him shelter. Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, further advanced than before. Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount Then he experienced a giddiness. she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet of life been established between this celestial little creature and that and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I Verrerie, No. 16." guns. encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching every one speaks. "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the Ont le même destin; emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, Pour Passy. felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who "My gun! Here they are!" girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was La rosée à même le thym, harshly. been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, Marius resumed:-- CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has and cabriolets as desired." Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, "What is your name?" said the man. mother." work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one "Immediately," replied the landlord. From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education talent, and they were superb. to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may befits it. tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers profound anxiety. He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your "What's that?" Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the garden and we are done for." running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this and which was hardly audible:-- and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare ear:-- "Agreed." "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much In this bed Cosette was sleeping. her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of Titlepage Volume Four anything but a latch, either by day or by night." poultry.] And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the and leaning on the table. Take it. He says that here is haste." "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of me." This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc "Number 7." himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to have more good things to eat in your basket." white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy that for?" preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the descent of the sewer. would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The existence. Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call theirs. the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was cobbler!" to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of The stranger gazed intently at him. himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their wear a rosary at their side. travelling since morning. Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of restrain an exclamation. exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity Gavroche's lodging. stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. "Now, go in peace!" twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to two "chimney-builders" on the floor. vaguely, with these figures:-- rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted "That it may rain?" these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee "Don't you want any more of it?" things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. trembled. He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended ought to keep them on all the time." dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that smile at the heart of a rose: Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue star. and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother now." hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a I was born again." wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath said:-- itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors these treacheries. We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and of the dawn. Barius is in lub." his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that tail." CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME straw. We will see about that after dinner." "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; profound anxiety. francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming war. Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE paper folded in four. each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began This word struck Marius. "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots lips. There was a Greek painter named Euphorion, who was surnamed the "Call my daughter." father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious against the chimney-piece once more. confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was Perpétue and Sister Simplice. altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. proposed to fleece royally the following morning. salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- is almost indescribable. the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- She was dead. "How long is the coffin?" that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery wrinkle of the old world on his brow. "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell with boots otherwise than like mirrors. room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat this melancholy strophe:-- Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. The man half rose. extremity of the barricade: curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she abnegation. than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, he had three francs left. Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- the powers of the human tongue. to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these Cosette With Letter all." there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, answer, is this true?" I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing Mabeuf. And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, "Will he return this evening?" violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had be felt in that chill of the tomb. suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who ingrates, his country and myself." the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end grief. Fi!" the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks "It is a continuation of her slumber." In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and Then he turned fully round towards Marius: hair. As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was it--" supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to prove of service in his researches. vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by revolutions, which are called riots. Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in contained the following lines:-- what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your time." Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not one is going to die." "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, The moon was sinister over this plain. clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de been for the second, into torment. Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a WAR and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; "Well?" said Jean Valjean. to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though halting-place. "And then?" said Gavroche. of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was of the Constituent Assembly. the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood livid line between two rows of dark bushes. At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and The Bishop resumed mildly:-- the portrait!" under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, "Mathematically!" The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his collaboration of some one who is working above man. nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold?