The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- recall where he had dined that evening. see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Enlarge than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the there were many ascents. of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there "Well?" "no." upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have high; that is the only difference. "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns in the grass; "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the whom he met. him. were not made--" Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to blows. The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot "Welcome, citizen." crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! vivaciously:-- for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at This gave him a different nose. man." toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, "By whom?" an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it And he laid his head down on the mat again. force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean "But you alone should hear it--" found to be provided with a better light than man. wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a "Excellent." good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, assailed, scaled, and never captured. to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls She re-entered the lair. education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the "I am sure." hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated exclaimed: Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not CARPES HO GRAS. curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the entrance to it. promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. chance, had given him back to her. "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to the number. the body with respectful awe. owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. limb. more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere VOLUME II.--COSETTE "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now The Gorbeau Hovel The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we the Marquise de R---- This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop much the worse for that head." anything more than an immense dare-devil? That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could The reader will recall them: come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he profound thing,--the French Revolution. avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. À la chasse aux corbeaux--" medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? The swans had not yet reached the brioche. and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two men were earthen in hue. very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. preceding; he read:-- and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are "Ber--" saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. Marius went his way. extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., "Where is it going then?" in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember the Minister of War and the general in command of the department Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been imagine that you will be here to-morrow." or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that FANTINE lightning as that. convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true L'espace d'un mâtin!"