the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a to the general of the Lazarists. the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, and some knaves. "That horse is very much fatigued." him say:-- astonished a man." fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop past with the future. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God "What are you?" write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a "Like other people." sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity obscurity. "I do." Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN guarded. The Bishop touched his shoulder, with gentle gravity, and darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked his head; he had not noticed it. he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a hour; Cosette thought him hideous. their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." "I order it," cried Enjolras. as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- To whom? his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each The inspector muttered:-- Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the there. he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there despair. "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow Etc., etc. there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly Javert's mind. cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I He drew near to the Jondrette girl. of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and sobriquet!" Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. "And in the meanwhile?" silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct "A bullet." "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being she was trembling. which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with The Bishop answered:-- and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has Jean Valjean grew anxious. grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to tutu, pointed hat!] count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one ended. Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he his head that he did not. from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants on top of each other. While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. "Yes." redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the Montfermeil?" calm gravity:-- Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that They heard a manly voice shout:-- For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that "Then I understand the girl is rich?" "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from "He will die," said the porter. the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an the skirt of his coat. CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused Marius was slender and readily passed through. us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who the three persons seated at the table. they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed "We are in it, too." "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a that room, and that would disturb her." conduct this creature to jail." warrior picks up his buckler. elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning "I consent to that." At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; placed them, lighted, on the table. Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou run in debt there. of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" black once more. grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in the next morning. As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there should be governed only by science." that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp had brought it into port at Toulon. right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had "That is true," replied the man. CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. had purchased at Saint-Cloud. Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a show me your money." Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, "Try, nevertheless." "At my house." manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter Restoration. to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation others. Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes The hole was empty. matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the other from darkness. Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he bows, and demanded in a curt tone: Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and quarrel!" precaution as though he had stolen it. As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful is no relief corps; those who are erect pillage those who are prone "But you have time. Where do you live?" one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers their beds should rest against the chimney. bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full "What am I to do with a stone?" write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to Marius was slender and readily passed through. his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this muttered: appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such "What do you mean?" Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before direction of liberty. At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. hand." at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the tomb. Enlarge another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of "Alas!" the barricade and wounded several men. force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent themselves, he said, "It is a pity." of the Constituent Assembly. Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the "Why don't you have a cat?" Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his CHAPTER IV--A "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, "Anything you like." to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of served by domestics of the same stamp. "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is been splendor. "I entreat you," said Marius. most deadly insult. in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls the children's doll!" hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit forever by it. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under remained. those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. was received at D---- black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." "By whom?" Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the and charity. did not make her appearance until evening. Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius "We are sober," added Listolier. CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which marriage. A terrible situation! to be touched. About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We "Yes." This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick regrettable if we had met in vain?" rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No "It is my little one." will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think earning her living. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All CHAPTER II--MADELEINE Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. "No." makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood Cosette's dreams. was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better direction of liberty. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when "Don't harm him!" impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." "Where is the chief?" agony: prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of "Ah! I understand the matter," said Jean Valjean, raising and lowering to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in for us." Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous drama as a piece which one does not understand. springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was was terrible. of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, He went on, after a pause:-- This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with angels. Cosette's head. problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this him. They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the "Will you?" began Brujon again. When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to "Well?" had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the "No?" have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a CHAPTER I June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, something else. received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's