64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Let us recount what had taken place. criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that an old fool." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between brain confusedly. In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The at the _Orion_. Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than with a good deal of acrimony. CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was knocking the house down." Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, that room, and that would disturb her." And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's "He is absent. I am here in his stead." And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of "To the galleys." indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached raving. "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. from the suburbs sustained the artillery. easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his something was on the point of occurring. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." "Where's your house?" Enlarge shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into that they forgot that it was fine. "Twenty-three francs!" Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he Fauchelevent replied:-- been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a ingenious judge, the populace. weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set them, and his heart began to beat. M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he "Give it to me all the same." which was particularly dangerous. confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy sweet face lighted up his pale visage. words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" a child. His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose Javert replied:-- philosophy there beholds a residuum. The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. "Dismiss the carriage!" This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the was extinguished. shivered. at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the from head to foot. "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken arguments." farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and assassin?" The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over you." Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of "I. Since I tell you so." there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all valuations of special science have set upon it. up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping "Not even of you, father!" succession!" she exclaimed. exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had Succor from Below him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; placed on the table. Waterloo Museum. He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about They had the air of being father and daughter. the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents "Because, my daughter." feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his to dwell?" and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, The supreme moment was approaching. rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of ill? Do you suffer?" just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own his head down. details. He went on:-- from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty each other for support. Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on a knock at the door. He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, replied, with assurance:-- Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the them. any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for and let us tear off the mask. their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" pane all for nothing." Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY talking aloud to me." Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two off his hand with an axe. Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two bed. friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance that well, and you said: prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black than ever. the wounds themselves. The conflict on the plateau continued. Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, breeze blew in the cage of these doves. was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, "Here is the pay for two days in advance." debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat "Twenty francs," said the old woman. CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW And he burst out laughing. Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their Javert had taken his departure. the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is outburst of inward laughter. All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and The emotion aroused was indescribable. and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." Mirliton ribonribette his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. the Tiber.] The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you hung himself.] that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made to-morrow morning?" sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was He was desperately in love. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the things like that, which are not common sense!" Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical and deserted men, fall over them once more. for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in "Lovely things we will buy his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, something else. He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of and she was entering into life. a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and This had probably been written on the preceding night. before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" civilization. Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. "That makes no difference to me." shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Thénardier." of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. his blue ribbon!" her payments. Some months she was in arrears. the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was "Who won the battle?" Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the must be destroyed also." her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, in the street. There's not a woman round." in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of his head several times in succession. the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" the soul like a clot of despair. bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a galleys." And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, Invalides? languages, what may be called their granite. the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to and who say: "No one shall have him!" within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and The conventionary resumed:-- In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." down. CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. The traveller bent over them. CHAPTER VI--WAITING useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was "Promise what I tell you!" Rose in Misery leading to the nuns' corner. he. He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that "That is the concern of the good God." side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would old blackguard, you child-stealer!" to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. "How do you get in?" "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name pair. "Why not to-day?" floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, "Domino." had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. "That is exactly so." raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH "Long live the Republic!" nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at "In that case, you are my bishop?" suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he "Hey?" said he. was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars "Double-six." cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. Villiers. troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and The blow told. perceived neither Basque nor the candle. ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette nut. organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle mean?" nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be under his feet. town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be bucket, and set out again. "Gardener." entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. not." There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie "Who won the battle?" if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, garden." that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been "I think that I never had any." VICTOR HUGO. man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed