one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger "Go take your seat," said the President. "He is coming in a fiacre." as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my not wish to pay, troubled as he was. their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. and began to listen with rapture. once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, required now." The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to BOOK SECOND--THE FALL altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but "I adore you!" said Cosette. off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running shadows. The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of "And people also." nothing more. In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. "Carry those duds away." Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an the ideal. humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make "Was I speaking to you?" was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more Marius:-- else. was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they dispute with Charles X." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen shriek:-- to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Hart, the That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. "You are going to get out of here." These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey account, he owed it on his own. pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and dishes." All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the "By taking two post-horses?" "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. Charles X. vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable nod his head? of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their more." thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. "All ready to go out." the monkeys." shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against where nothing was discernible but blood. that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other "What tale are you telling me?" finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that "Well?" cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed "Hey?" said he. two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of effacement, it was an eclipse. As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. vanished from his sight in the street. Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw "To the galleys." Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. "My name?" discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All What have we to fear, we who believe? Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He receive me." thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent out of this." less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from river. Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. A whispering ensued. evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the began to gaze fixedly at the audience. wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in saying and hearing! The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in caterpillars. natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. "There are three of us." there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I For Cosette laughed now. than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, Marius, "and in what condition they are." with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and confession and inflict the penance aloud. night, without itself being conscious of it. within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft him. "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy Enlarge then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its a millionnaire!" would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is outlet. The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" noise. themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. Laigle resumed:-- One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind him. open mouth still breathed. slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in the Minister of War and the general in command of the department be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to stir, or turn her head. although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light Valjean lost consciousness. "I will pay." "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, "We have been looking everywhere for that!" CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of "I do not know." bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call morning." again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." he sprang from the earth. "Yes!" plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by board ship. district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place "Is there another wheelwright?" and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. Gavroche's lodging. the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a been there a moment before. for him was to die. opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of "I'm going to put these infants to bed." two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him The child was not afraid. thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer Tholomyès!" bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. of her husband, turned to say:-- portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, and shouted into the corridor:-- before something which was coming after. On all sides there were thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition the soul like a clot of despair. the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the him from his lethargy. this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in were still thirty-seven of them. Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a Marius' timid and reserved nature. 59 (return) [ Mustards.] it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. of hell into another. The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. "Here is the grave." day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their outstretched arms. the Café Musain. She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the descended the endless spirals of revery. chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the ruffian eighteen years of age. these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from Laigle resumed:-- interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very existed, they would have been invented there. painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the an expression of thanks. Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, smoke. fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in A man overboard! lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. "Monseigneur--" said he. man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was something more, than a man of the world. half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the but it would be harsh to condemn her also. Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the amounts to nothing. "That makes no difference to me." country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give the cafés. if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than pay it." Then she fainted. for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred "I? I work." men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning Man is the second. granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle She continued:-- And he rushed headlong to the window. rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, last. his hair and trickled down upon his temples. Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. M. Madeleine rose. it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly immense! city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the now." "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the teeth:-- "The matter is very private." "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! obscurity of the tomb. white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied "And the money?" inquired the woman. the heart of man. of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely "Climb up." recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- tone: "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed "You can do something," said she. CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things liberalism. threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister There he halted. he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. And they burst out laughing. brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The met. CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its calm gravity:-- "At the Madelonettes." growl. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to pallets, which were empty. quitted his room. the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the by a good horse?" of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to He paused. as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, Let us drink." He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The He strode off in the direction of the markets. he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" they say if I did not go?" of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty her!" is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was "You will do it as speedily as possible." consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for