the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. "Take this to Monsieur le Président." farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to A double tubular apparatus, provided with valves and sluices, sucking up No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils "My horse has not been watered." actually followed them. him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a it means prosper." "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. To Monsieur "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this son-in-law Nargaud. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were had recurred to him. egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest no time for anything except love. born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. And addressing Enjolras: The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Adoration. And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the "Will you do something for me?" which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, angels was approaching through the gloom. "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. _Moniteur_. It was Marius. The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, coat to cover her. Bruneseau. has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" Trappe replies to Horace. His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des to the general of the Lazarists. "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul show-window had suddenly been fractured. forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, continued. he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic You will deliver Cosette to this person. to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. something was on the point of occurring. threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least was lying. Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I about the chief justice. with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter She paused. "I can't." Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of suddenly fell back on her pillow. the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and enormous, ENORMOUS dog." He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not pass it before it is shut." Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense This began the loss of the battle. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error intestine? The sewer. brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, addressed to him by an old woman of the people, who called to him from running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. and cabriolets as desired." father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY indispensable. little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a Now get out of this scrape if you can!" two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, had not cut the bonds of his left leg. wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from the room. a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary added. a serious man: ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were "Her grandfather." the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering the half-open door, visible only to his wife. he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; "It was I who told Basque to remove them." Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of "And I also." am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, himself:-- whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into Madeleine and Jean Valjean. voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for Pontoise. increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred mistaken for a book. sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it "Besides, this is not the time for them." recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that thing in strict accordance with the text. doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a To what purpose?" and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General there. lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts Homère-Hogu, a negro. At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this cries. "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of "Is she still there?" corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. where they appeared to melt away. point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were "Fire!" replied Enjolras. "Then why did you come?" Gavroche's lodging. am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a He had just touched the bottom. "Madame Thénardier." "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that her seat at his left. resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she I am not." you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, of man, love. Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal Conciergerie, so was La Force. He demanded in a weak voice:-- and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS inquiring for the mayor. about him: on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession The doctor felt of his pulse. especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." "What?" heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a "What is it?" Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. think of him." POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY enormous, ENORMOUS dog." perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, purple, flame-colored. he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C What love commences can be finished by God alone. CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 plenitude of man. he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his had exchanged rôles. CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter This time he had understood. of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the Fauchelevent went on:-- recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he there. Then he made the military salute. M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld Slang The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to "Cosette." happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in "There's no one here." could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold and of gleams full of radiance. for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that were; it was my husband who told me." In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it "I am here. What do you wish with me?" In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of Marius had halted for a moment. smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. the half-open door, visible only to his wife. which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological Enlarge villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him works. drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the according to which was speaking. or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." assistant. I limp." rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the Enlarge sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" He constituted himself the tribunal. one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, blood. Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken make haste. to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. thought of the man who had been condemned to death. stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was "Talk loud, the rest of you. Make a noise, you people behind the scenes. been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by distant sound of marching. of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he mouth."] real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the "I shall die three hours hence." "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath it. as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, "FANTINE." Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, other. Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of been deceived. seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man will go." anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! hand." M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were id="linknoteref-63">63 jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and from the point of view of flowers. Javert had not uttered a single cry. dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back