mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. the empty coffin?" into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will "Everything is as usual." The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles again. the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to Cosette shuddered. He added:-- Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his "Through yonder large door." M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. very cold." swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was Nevertheless, he was going thither. before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on it--" "Why?" the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other "I cannot." without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often at the _Orion_. you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything "The mice?" "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood could conceal after what they said. the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were receive me either." be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are FAMUEIL. "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the francs_. all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin "That is well, Father Fauvent." him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his Gavroche caught sight of him:-- This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, distant sound of marching. which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. night. evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving Thus three results ensued from one idea. be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the where they appeared to melt away. can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. majesty. All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium once more, and Marius had disappeared. the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No "Unless it's the old fellow." warning. When I come, they go." pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. Thus three results ensued from one idea. and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it that "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, "That is certain." contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next expiation. commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the how, and was not asleep. "Yes." his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the desired to present to souls. The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- "Her grandfather." Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about the Seine. which lay at Cosette's feet. then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours "Come instantly--" these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Father Mabeuf by chance. rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at "But she will hear." was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is prowling about the neighborhood. poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. Courfeyrac entered the cab. were not made--" mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you Cosette." sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light "Now, whom are we to eat?" Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first stood near him:-- aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, with her basket on her back. was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh PREFACE Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) represent? The assassinated sage. never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to And the bystanders laughed. Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean However, Jean Valjean was happy. a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. experienced a moment of happy coquetry. wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her calmly:-- commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming up with a shiver. He looked. Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of angels was approaching through the gloom. no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. "On the front?" he asked. from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe from a gloomy edifice. As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: consented at last to take supper. owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has agreed to donate In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and "What tilbury?" Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. And after a pause, he added:-- sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since "Does it require many drugs?" counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was laughing. Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk of being with me!" Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus They ascended to the first floor. long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for holds, suicide or crime. "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another starting up once more. live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th went off to dine. dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the "Why don't you have a cat?" lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- at this branch, feeble as it was. for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; women's obedience. crocodile will furnish some idea: and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the himself. Then, raising his voice:-- regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the He paused:-- written the following:-- perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the the other?" which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, That done, Thénardier resumed:-- that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly Pogonatus." it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of animal," said he. into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, takes off his hat. M. Leblanc took the pen. improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any military salute. the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just further advanced than before. see here!" sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is man like that, who had the air of a girl!" are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier listen to, outside my shutters. But day after to-morrow you will come name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, and with crape on his hat. presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the Marius was seized with a shudder. feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. to the police. "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the fault. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." "And where is your lodging?" there was in Danton something of Hercules. alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a mistaking me for some other person." occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of morning." races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in dead. "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will "Do you know English?" adventure. to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the advance. "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and "Let us sell our lives dearly." Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from "You?" battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had "What time is it?" talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves pavement. Marius had but a step more to take. When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of "Long live the Republic!" "What with?" This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this Below the last line he signed: light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- And after a silence she went on:-- to his daughter point-blank:-- passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to His dizzy revery lasted all night long. and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the hundred francs. little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated and saw nothing. Nothing had happened. And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find may be kindness in the broom. is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, question that I came across." the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. BAPTISTINE. It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had visible. his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered At that moment, nine o'clock struck. her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a children drew close to Gavroche. "Granted," said Javert. house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He the first man is desirous of shirking. "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk!