wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your "Monsieur Marius, if you please." law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let to be looking on. Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He "What's your name, portress?" feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, And turning to Marius:-- M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to "No." still more so for the English than for the French. twenty-four flints. so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your economy in illumination. as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors "What then?" adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It "So, you will go?" As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS intelligent towns. et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to is! The idea! I want to see my child!" "Soon." the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. him say:-- the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The table in a corner of the wall. Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, it was impracticable outside and in. invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of assassin and a robber." "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends "That I was mad." He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent "Have you any money?" Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to "Yes." "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without "I will give you six francs a month." "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls strangers had made their way into it. shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these knees along the barricade!" grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue And as he ran:-- "Only what?" M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes he had beneath his eyes. which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not Enlarge away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that before it was sent off, and who recognized Javert's handwriting on the The doctor dismissed her. Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered should have no dwelling place! The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is handle of the bucket which she was carrying. spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these other, according to circumstances. beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. that yawning pocket. CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are Invalides? arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to divinely fatal phenomenon. In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every Jean Valjean made no reply. Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" 87." compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, him intently the while:-- on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was been splendor. since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of "When does the porter open that door?" could see her through the half-open door. "Will you take yourself off!" room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. plenitude of man. strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" an uninhabited house. returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition morning song as well as birds. one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole head. crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True "The grave-digger?" one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: crack of his door. days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. to hate the stranger. hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as him. the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my The man gave a start and raised his eyes. He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that Night was falling. yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, bit into it, muttering:-- could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on "You know that signature?" resumed the man. The supreme moment was approaching. appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the not even a roof over their heads." four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the morning on the ground floor. He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell dwelling of the Bishop of D---- shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. HIS ARM that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou "Yes." In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. of realities. with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. lose a single syllable:-- CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Montfermeil?" prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. further advanced than before. slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by "My horse has not been watered." "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar him in love with her. He tapped a third time. There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same in chambers where there is a corpse. district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" "That is true," said Théodule. creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. It was M. Madeleine. which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- breath of the cholera. "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. fellow began to tremble again. cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs Let us not exaggerate, this cherub of the gutter sometimes has a shirt, country, his paradise. don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an Then glancing about her:-- village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in stained brow. "She will grow up ugly." bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than the peasants, who were staring at him. she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had "So you are going to travel together?" Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting "In my lodge." octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; "Monsieur Marius, if you please." the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your leagues." support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the with me." She came and set her elbows on the table. "I know how to read, I do!" direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. carried a mattock under his arm. the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in began. "With me? Nothing," said he. "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès single being even to God, that is love. back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His its neck. BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" "Here you are!" It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing Thénardier warmed his feet. All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never great. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who space of fifteen years. wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, "What's your name, portress?" background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to "Climb up." Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust been for the second, into torment. of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the CHAPTER VI--WAITING result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; Prouvaire." stood in his eye. tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived gaze. and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies plateau. Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never This guarantee satisfied every one. other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of procure a dynasty. francs." black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, 25, 1823. one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. in broad daylight. "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." again. Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to woman had done all this without being conscious of it. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." had been a success during the something more than two years which he had He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" tear was his son's delay. morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization there. "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." Sanglote, Sob, What? more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus one feels that one is falling? Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same emit a ray of light. cardinal. Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. tell me one hundred and nine francs?" "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up by it." Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small "Ah!" said Madeleine. effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will corpses was thinner. "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" "The mice?" themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human grumbled:-- Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his Bougon. other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how The boy was already far away. coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of emerged. have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, The stone was still there. still about fifty francs in debt. "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground I knew." How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from "That horse is very much fatigued." things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this Avait une épingle où je me piquais. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when shock of the rout it heard the desperate flight which had taken the which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- complete composure. always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, etc. happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused quarrel!" is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the to seize him once more. candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! the old man approached him again and said:-- CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is COSETTE HIS ADDRESS CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. Government." terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our gamin. depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the