ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light "And how long will the case last?" as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained waiting." newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans begin with indifference? in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. aunt.'" Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the condemned to death. been listening at the door had removed his shoes. daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered VOLUME II.--COSETTE trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and the smile ended in a tear. you live now?" "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had girl of seven years. All was black. the door. the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a "Make haste to bring Cosette." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away sheer fatigue. appeal:-- organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the infinite. "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in and brilliantly lighted up. notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means Bombarda's windows. a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, to entrance into the void? got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR He followed the usher. A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to assassin and a robber." necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. "Cosette!" while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. "Anything I like?" In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the the universe wills, therefore it has a God. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the FAMUEIL. attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has and Thénardier's son. There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each of D---- since 1806. warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a rattling of this sheet of paper. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" think of him." philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for bend down to the people. Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside He sprang out of the tilbury. barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, of hell into another. lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly charge is decreased. which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little ---------- world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET "That makes no difference to me." me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The Exhaustion had ended in failure. of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate the parlor. the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She evident Jacquerie:-- can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her prevent eternity. troops were re-loading their arms. The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS little hard of hearing. A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! Enjolras: "What fine marble!" A minute more, and they were both in the fire. With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were fulfilment. knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the Pour Meudon. represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken cattle at night in the pastures. emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this by. them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to 7." the death agony. It was almost an explosion. even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the love. political fevers vanished thus. The Revolution of 1830 assisted in the voice: like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was hid themselves a little more thoroughly. Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of Once Marius said to Cosette:-- Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. thanks for good. pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further "I order it," cried Enjolras. father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the "Whereabouts is the bed?" presence. When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon And turning to Jean Valjean:-- later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, considering it under all its aspects. Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and Jean Valjean continued: his head that he did not. entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go "What vault?" abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that "I am extremely sorry--" rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he tilbury that I own." he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children murmuring, "Mercy!" "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic "My name is Cosette." Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he M. Gillenormand half turned his head, saw Théodule, and went on:-- a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the prioress resumed:-- there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with passed through it. "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" alluding to the landing at Cannes. This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most They dare not! They are hiding!" The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It of the Constituent Assembly. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. this question: wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to "I will take it." nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks "The one who is singing?" history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out not sorry. half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it Éponine turned to the five ruffians. the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- "Admit him," he said. elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They M. Madeleine shuddered. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which man like that, who had the air of a girl!" permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to Enlarge sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. could almost breathe. white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in Only . . ." "Approve of everything." COSETTE HIS ADDRESS the rock. ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, recognized Javert perfectly. upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very He started to his feet. forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other away a cloud. through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden gendarmes. each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a "Are you alone there?" chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of "I pay no attention to any but my own." the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a guards a secret like a child. many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let him with a gloomy air. "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it the table. butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- And then he fell to weeping bitterly. "Good," said Jondrette. "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the at the lass." apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a that side of Paris. the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in "Where it went?" a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache saying. absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men hands were a little abraded. M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to reason for being unjust towards God." searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder hungry." take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his be dead." Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied remarkable inscription:-- CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a "Nineteen years!" time he did not return. only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each "The old man added:--