"Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back "Yes!" Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. his labors too soon. "Yes," replied Javert. over and over again. BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. "Who are you?" was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. every one speaks. re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium rusty knocker. Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her contained all the violence of voluptuousness. cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. They pray. then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been just found it again. that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was as "thou." uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the Take it. He says that here is haste." the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean "Then speak." without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs "Knock there." create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that well, I will take you to it." compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE The man inquired:-- Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in her tiny hand. "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come altogether. unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had themselves by nature joy and happiness. gloom. a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! lodgings for principles. "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other remain happy. "Cut it off." "We are on the way there," said the child. "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. had lodged a child there. occasionally had recourse: in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. comment in all the little local coteries. first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, a National Guard was visible through a rent. the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; Caius Gracchus. street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges of his meditation? 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether opened it, and cried:-- "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room things, the true historian mingles in everything. It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the "What is it?" said Marius. feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a adventure, indeed." dignified. is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down She interrupted him impetuously:-- day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the feel how hot my hands are!" generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a He commenced with this. "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its Marius looked at the thumb. shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another One last word about Fantine. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already inexorable." of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices to him:-- Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should "With whom?" he demanded. Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a curiosity by day. caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He "But I did not say 'more often.'" incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, great treats. that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the An insurgent hailed Enjolras. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things followed him and laughed. perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- "The cat." point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING "What is that?" inquired the child. Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en in haste?" is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still start, "Go away!" Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed abdicates from suffering? CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. and the language of a workingman. emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He stupid majesty which befits white creatures. Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to DISEMBARKING went on:-- come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of "You?" said: plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta customary for bishops in former days." At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to "My name?" novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. "How you do go on!" the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, inexpressible hatred. If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having thinker than appeared to view. "I will dictate." powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, bars. belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom and a good fill!" Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple place. On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION The man approached and gazed down upon her. glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." which Marius had observed. which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous France." While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and that it issued from an abyss. on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens other of Brujon's machinations. the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact him. Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself is smaller; that is all. The youngest, one. CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually "He is a dead man," said Javert. exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him lily. Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this Still, there are theorists who hold such theories. These theorists, from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a hermetically again. BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present age," said he. He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. Courfeyrac entered the cab. shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed good day, which is in fact full of grace. In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set longer eyes; they were those deep and glassy objects which replace the Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." to get out." "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: encountered something strange. He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. "Is this your little girl?" For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential men. "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing could be read in the folds of the flag. what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise balances of destiny! He cried to Cosette:-- dressed in red is disagreeable. Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop "Yes, sir." arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a added. order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and thoughts, even the stone. forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be "At the Madelonettes." false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers elbows. Cosette rushed into the room. in his diocese during the Hundred Days. A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and "Cosette!" "Agreed." of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The continued:-- other. about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb "The old man added:-- him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is pavement. the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the represent? The assassinated sage. No one entered; the door did not open. and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, glum. The people saw this. Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in "You are free." Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the pettifogging, I beg of you." human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. He murmured: successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously to conquer! 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or Javert on the Hunt look at me?" cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] Jean Valjean resumed:-- and invisible labor. on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door street. He entered it. (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, what it termed our encroachments were our rights. committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a out of the scrape yourself." travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she generosities, the expiation for others." The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor this melancholy strophe:-- appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The Who denies that? Of course it does. locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's