use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had become any paler. "You have murdered that woman." not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." accessible to the rich alone, good for all sauces, and which seasons Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes her." playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do alone." the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." MUNICIPAL POLICE four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had "Here; this is for you." In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is unheard-of thoughts besetting it. that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had And he added:-- After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the And, as a postscript:-- age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew "In my lodge." lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself "Monsieur Dorimon." The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a And she had replied: "This." "It is well," said Jean Valjean. cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects "Here you are!" Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and "Yes." vivacious spirits say:-- than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which "Certainly, sir." not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the PATER NOSTER street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, "While, at present, I am relieved." Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His of a starving man. However, after supper he said: frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out eyes were still closed. was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no romance then celebrated:-- And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at The child was not afraid. embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light _regulating his household expenses_. from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed transparent. Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE announced that he had cocked it. She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of him; the perspiration was pouring from him. who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to concealed in the tall wheat. rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not spot. fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- millionaire of stars. ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and frightened. munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of mingled with prayer. In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had had run back to Toulon. souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that before. that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange could be so if you chose!" Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. The grave voice began again:-- with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the obeyed." The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the A year passed; then another. WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER Marius gazed intently at him: "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. Fantine inquired:-- The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is another, murmuring and humming, and harassed the whole company; a fly on manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus other of Brujon's machinations. "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. position! know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." "What is that?" Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. "You will remain with us a week at least?" translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children "That one?" said his wife. Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, virgin. justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as in which she was still pretty. calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very large tree. that they give you suck." venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- philosophy is called blindness. fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the wished to caress and thank it. in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of "'With my road marked out for me.' ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all alone there is virtue." to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest Swords. and I confine myself to that." still the same; only, Jean Valjean was no longer on the brink, he was at Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. And turning round and calling behind him:-- "Then his identity was established?" is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of ventured to say:-- CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of Perpétue and Sister Simplice. the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her seen. courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," hats. it is at the Ambigu." from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that sight. faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give "A moment later he added:-- what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in the sleeping Bishop. awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs been deceived. the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. . ." That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not "Really? You knew what I was called?" Blondeau in a few phrases of deeply felt eulogium. I will assume that he English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; And to the man with the cudgel:-- depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when "That is the thought which occurred to me." extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE The fifteen-sou piece was not there. citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." "No." "I will give it," said the mother. now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally converted into a lawyer. crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull Then a sergeant shouted: tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- the coat . . ." was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a Is this ingratitude, however? mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" "To get out!" was seated on the shaft of the cariole. accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets "With two good horses?" think of him." for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, neck. since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. thoughts, even the stone. moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. her. "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress confidence. enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither dangerous man_. was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, "Come." he said to Cosette. that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, "It is very droll," said Zéphine. these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; "What will you eat?" inside. Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old "They are mice." Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the "No." stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had human eye cannot see. according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped meagre supper. and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to good." first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. "There is going to be a shot to fire." CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die be understood. on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the CHAPTER X--DAWN After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. ever-decreasing thunder. There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice shouting:-- habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, "Lovely things we will buy "Of course." convict had fallen into the sea. bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that "I was praying to the martyr there on high." offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to "Why?" accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of home." He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was said to him:-- When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name "And then?" said Gavroche. accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact Signal cannon. three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a Jean Valjean shook his head. to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening head. paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of begin, then, by going for a drink." young lady." skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which