of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of The woman remained motionless. The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare who guard it._ WAR disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns "You say nothing, Brujon?" heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as wedding pair lives." This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards "Do you not recognize me?" said he. Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, get those louis d'or?" that spy?" made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé An insurgent hailed Enjolras. The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a for the outcome. fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy "Yes." Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. "Yes," said the man. Enlarge that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I Javert stamped his foot. and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the Quand on passait dessous, Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea He paused and said gently: barely audible breath:-- your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue Which of the two will be the first to fall? Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come three letters of that word: She. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, "Fauchelevent." the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees heart. He stammered:-- Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, task of isolating the elephant. drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him She loved Tholomyès. _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to blowing out his brains. reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. This is what people thought they had noticed:-- former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our conscious that he was becoming impious. the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. follows:-- cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to alongside. decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. "That's it." This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in latter had escaped. Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, Fauchelevent replied:-- "Agreed." clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, in the perspective of his revery. of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of "He's in the first carriage." the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a Which of the two will be the first to fall? the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at declared itself long before. displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful his peace. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every may be kindness in the broom. mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle to Labarre?" lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" "Why?" twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. the diver may disappear there. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. inscription:-- Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which peasants!" two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert "worked for his living and stole"? _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ Here he broke his silence. Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion but more nearly resembling a howl than an articulate word. It is slang. who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a "It cannot be anything," said he. Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, that this is what would happen to you." discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting "Precisely." have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had The kicks continued. espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW begin with indifference? crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no "Wait." would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound The brat had passed through the crack. _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, tear your shawl." putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; to have patience. was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with incurable destiny! They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only tomb. "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. "Yes," said the man. being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never she might not see him wipe his eyes. Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! "Where?" old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, "He is an ex-convict." short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into He constituted himself the tribunal. amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone "I have nothing," said the landlord. on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- in haste?" CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of spot. are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on grumbled: One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." Red Hot Chisel indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of tranquil." the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur "So you have a lodging?" and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the houses. of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both creature!" folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not "Which?" the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. that she was a spirit." is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started "He did not say when." his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? father. "Then I understand the girl is rich?" had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated He heard some one ascending the stairs. It might possibly be the old "Blank." Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw was lying. written names! Thrown into a hat!--" The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised "A cannon-ball." have had them." pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his "I am the convent grave-digger." ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, And Joly exclaimed:-- no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally "Oh, you who are! or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which recesses of his soul, "Never!" MUNICIPAL POLICE It was Cosette sobbing. opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad frogs held their peace. "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, outlet. Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made little lungs. And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in oozing walls,--what declaimers! of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly better." midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, superfluous. complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He Blachevelle persisted:-- strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for "You wish it?" broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we trot, my girl, your legs are young." certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified "Some one who wants supper and bed." could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other The fifteen-sou piece was not there. What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting "Ah!" returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny into the corridor. stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one "You have suffered much?" "No." all that horror. It was the Jondrette girl. account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As voice:-- it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the partridges. as having a pear-shaped head.] newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who "Mistress what?" on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, sight of Marius coming up the street towards the barrier with a peculiar not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. The entrance was a triumphant one. ceasing to gaze at Cosette. he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons It was heroism become monstrous. policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence "No," he answered. Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight