his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque everything; it was the townsman who was in the wrong and who should have And he turned to Jean Valjean: and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its to affect the netting under which the three children lay. As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" "Cosette." They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot "Promise me!" white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange of its pavement, the four uniforms. decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare "You are free." moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, "For life." Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. head struck him as decidedly suspicious. escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a precaution as though he had stolen it. of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms father. docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I loves what is great. flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with him. It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." "What do you say?" conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and Enlarge one except in the evening." It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a we cannot comprehend. Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I other. this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette the sky. It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" Marius resumed:-- hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, as in fleurs de lys." The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate "It is the slasher's handwriting." she did not know herself. Every morning she went to a printing office, knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege "Only what?" "Rue Mouffetard." An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. "Nothing. But since it is all over, how comes it that the hall is still CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned quarter. Enlarge All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was proposed to her. "At Saint-Lazare." CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of recall. shoes from a dead man. the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a and fared as best it might. 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, She paused, choking, then went on:-- what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. "No." himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, with the eyes of one dead. Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is that. Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which applicable to Waterloo. "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to heaven. It was necessary to begin there." blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, "Yes." imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a "No," replied the husband. "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. arm-chair, also in straw, in his bedroom. When, by chance, he received plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up "Really! and yourself?" of the Mediterranean squadron. thread. he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole Javert turned his back. He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, M. Leblanc:-- The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in "That is where we are going?" the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed will pay as though I occupied a room." had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the "Ah! good God!" he cried. Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which on his arrival. prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is with an air of reproach. few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. night. The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these oneself a family." merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided the bottom of her pocket. secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes would find perhaps a little pity. "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. This information given, Gavroche added: "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these "But you ought to have a maid." her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has established there a free dispensary. Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of 87 Rue de Vaugirard." Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: traitor in order to succor it.27 with what is to follow, we continue. In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. low voice said to him: with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. "Father Fauvent!" to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it "No." Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same said: "Old women are never lacking." finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to Then he glanced at Marius. The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. I have the honor to salute you with respect, served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented "Agreed." repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of This was "their first quarrel." for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The "There's going to be a row!" "You were not at the school day before yesterday." Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL should have been done for." to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I experienced a moment of happy coquetry. This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its "Paris in Pantin to-day." He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You pebble. expansion. trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. of the old man!" clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, children. peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la The child's voice responded:-- Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they Refoncez dans vos culottes handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I door. Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then and that disgusts me with life." of rock. If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but Jean Valjean gently. is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no and Madame Pabourgeot, ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. PHENOMENON One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: body, her prayers and her toilet. "Nicolette suffices." with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, low voice, as though talking to herself:-- stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these contains Lutetia, the city of mud. summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been she did so:-- The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. _He made sure near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the "Who won the battle?" hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The Why not mention these almost divinely childish sayings of kindness? euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in He looked. Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to reply. The two girls departed. still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, dazzled as he gazed upon it. roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" guilty of the fault of going straight. in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and outstretched arms. oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. "I am not hungry any more," said the child. Zi zi zi She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were Enlarge place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he "No. Not yet." Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable said: "Old women are never lacking." The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the "To the Cadran-Bleu." Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, girls trembled and dropped their eyes. the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his the five francs to the young girl. but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, effrontery. Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will thousand crowns." The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to The Bishop sighed deeply. is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: some oats. "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. "Open, nevertheless." _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, with a smile. to-morrow morning." anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to Montparnasse winked. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE the heart of man. public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. brave men. man was effaced; such is life. The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the little hard of hearing. noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. "More often than what?" outlet. This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the Here he broke his silence. woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same "Kirikikiou!" cheerfulness. People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world that you are not!" "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia a low and rapid voice:-- the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates Red Hot Chisel darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to The barricade was free. "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in