and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through "And people also." the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. happened?" assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. it--" it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, step by step, almost fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced noise. of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my Pontmercy and yourself." man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the REVOLUTIONIST government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He in that manner? The Grand Army. making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his impossible, as a woman without children. had run back to Toulon. sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness "Enter, sir," she said. The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus three times rapidly without uttering a word. "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, "Why?" ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun one quite close to him say:-- inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the monstrous:-- police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory "Is it you, peasant?" that spy?" another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive "Listen." stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in "Somewhat." distinctly heard voices. of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The CHAPTER I During those hours of waiting, what did they do? belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief "So you are going to travel together?" wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he Frontpapers remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. There was nothing in this wooden shoe. without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required "Do you permit it?" the omnibus had been overturned. which is called innocence! surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its the middle of the garret. myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. black once more. A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before This was the outer wall of La Force. thousand crowns." a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is depths!] called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing "I know what you want." me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his terminated with these lines:-- she might not see him wipe his eyes. This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de Then a formidable spectacle was seen. now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. "He's following a man!" it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a this time all had come. which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. with me over the children of the people." That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel especially commercial redistribution. not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped begin with indifference? He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden wherever I am." "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. had passed that way. invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the First problem: To produce wealth. it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that "What church?" fault. "We are saving our powder." disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went of the shadows which enveloped this man. He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. us. We shall not loose our hold of you." his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still has entered here. Who are you, sir?" and twenty handsome maids, General." seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined Mistress Balizard. sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack Etc., etc. exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into "Who are you?" he demanded. earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the "You love me, then?" refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language console the widowed proprietress. Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent All at once she paused. solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted day. He was as neat as a new sou." "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of "You have money--" in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as Marius had but a step more to take. going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the think of him." nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the The moon, which had just risen behind her, cast Cosette's shadow in unheard-of thoughts besetting it. will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of need to ask permission." blinded, as it were, by virtue. fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of lugubrious stretches. He shook her vigorously. gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy meeting on the Jungfrau. CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made morning." Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, it. should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: her teeth:-- have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle nut no longer held firm. indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from Then a sergeant shouted: the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. "Well?" said Cosette. that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that morning?" illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the name of Paradise. of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who He listened. out where he had been. Father Champmathieu on Trial will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." Cosette struck her tiny hands together. in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no could be read in the folds of the flag. facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of poultry.] Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent up and replied: "Javert." society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort From the proper employment of forces results public power. distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" little girl whom Fantine heard singing. The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. fear of the red to horned cattle." intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and post of a drinking-shop. He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, insurgents. piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is He constituted himself the tribunal. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man elections. _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter Then it was terrible. of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS be understood. beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just infirmities of ideal passions! in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, "Here?" inquired a voice. man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him with the cavern? table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in there. He awoke, stammering:-- ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle "That is just." Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent called Mother Assumption. quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis advance. Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the CHAPTER IV--A Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We He kissed her brow. of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous loudly:-- morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that thought. another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father accosted him.