rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." abnegation. definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the him. walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always is taking his departure. three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which had become unrecognizable. mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of "A lass." whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased Marius made a movement. beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is "The little one has an outfit?" whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring The door opened. what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is and saw nothing. his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always "Are you less cold now?" said he. Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" off by the devil." taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; I'm standing treat." you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear They searched him. "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, and the Hôtel Meurice. principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince "I will pay on my return." "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the in the large barricade. bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor bite, he exclaimed:-- Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old disdain the canonship. porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred people in all walks of life. And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it disorder. there. understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. Then glancing about her:-- "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should "My feet are cold!" said he. Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair This gave him a different nose. respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a him!" moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into "Pay in advance," said the coachman. "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting He tapped again. the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction presence of the thing which they were about to behold. After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the the absence of the wolf. Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING may be kindness in the broom. house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in sarcasm from the corridor:-- the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, by passion. Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five "Yes," said the man. rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just get those louis d'or?" and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. prepare the shipwreck. height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; Monsieur. themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David id="linknoteref-61">61 of caverns. the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the Duclos. the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little Author: Victor Hugo Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second mother paid the fifteen francs. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well to scratch one's self." wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of tell himself. asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, prove of service in his researches. Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, open mouth still breathed. "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the occur. Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he "His daughter, Célestine." Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- and Madame Pabourgeot, Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the of Vienna. "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her "That is well." me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, heavenward. "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid "Pay in advance," said the coachman. Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance floated off towards the roof. Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. "Certainly there is," said the old woman. they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his Cosette became angry. "Adieu, Madame." "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand "What is it?" Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, at the moment. cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. "Ultime Fauchelevent." Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the "I leave this very evening, aunt." among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed DISEMBARKING a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; when Molière wrote and Callot drew. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. "But before that--" This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, vanquished. to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind "That one?" said his wife. Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering little. We are wasting our time, and we have pressing business on hand. "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, man was effaced; such is life. who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great "So you do not recognize me?" the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of your very humble galleys. Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way once more at the Luxembourg. avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a an indication of a sagacious mind. sufficient to create consternation. deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. "No." window. "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. thunder:-- "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. "She died at daybreak." alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The The mirror reflected the writing. "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, Gans. his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, "Very well, then!" an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are congealed state:-- straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why ruffian eighteen years of age. One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the Marseillaise. In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid poignards. under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was horse for the rider. and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to "Javert." out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon he would have expired with grief. It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ table: his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, The night grew more profound. him:-- in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man rusty knocker. "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the replaced her. Why?" ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left was stationed above, the French army below. "I have no money to buy any dinner." the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two ventriloquist. While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it called Mother Assumption. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She only bird which bears up its own cage. work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. He was troubled from all these points of view. roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the your very humble Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, Titlepage Volume Four in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is two problems must be combined and made but one. In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, finger on this compartment and said:-- unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was "Friends! Listen well. This is not what you want. Now I'm talking. In ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius fold it." She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged "Why not?" Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, To tell the truth, neither of them slept. sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in and in which there lingered a tremor:-- were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was "I ask you whether you will go?" secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their do not abandon the people." room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very Marius. cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we Enlarge identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the Javert did not withdraw. who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and hospital expenses. "Why not to-day?" avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine experienced a moment of happy coquetry. plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed sooner than he had thought for. you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was "With what?" Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, Monsieur. had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains nothing was lacking. He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, was the Bishop. "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, precisely the idea of which I was in search." unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble often." barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- "I thought that a fire was unnecessary."