did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That Kruideniers, called Bizarro. occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. evil-minded is black. One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole youth! well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had "Will you open, yes or no?" lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour help them from outside. Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive the wall is much in use in Paris. accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. _winter salon_. CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his mind of man itself. his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia other, and probably a volume of the same romance. to him:-- CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, "But--" fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of "Elsewhere." his horse having tumbled down. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame Barrière du Maine." he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that pursuing some one. Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare And Montparnasse went on:-- Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being NAPOLEON IS MADE corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had The old man resumed with a half-smile at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of shoes from a dead man. errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies starting up once more. which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame "So it seems to me." say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of choose to say--" this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- "And great haste is required." Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they The fifth man was saved. No, the fathers. have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear front of that vision of joy. To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be Quand irons nous dans la forêt? he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had Cosette and Marius made their appearance. to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make francs. This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at "I have no money to buy any dinner." the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the in communication with each other. a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to He was decidedly terrified. "Have you a place?" thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and And he added:-- gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. under side of civilization. mistaken for a book. him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it A third peal created a diversion. walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a tortuous, colossal citadel. I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. once more profoundly calm and serene. rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by The beggars. I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, "Monsieur Pontmercy." and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded children. this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence "No." "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his Cosette's mother continued:-- on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not cannon." magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and permit of recognition at close quarters. they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such room of the Café Musain. a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are "Never!" break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- "I leave this very evening, aunt." leur dire un mot. three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I "Well?" unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? "What is it?" asked her husband. He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All There was nothing in this wooden shoe. mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to anything but a latch, either by day or by night." afterwards. a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen "What address?" paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! live?" displeasing. BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE his plea. night. It was a headlong flight. there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de Finistère. "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. both; that is to say, a thief." Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were inquired:-- it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed together they buried the empty coffin. We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING "He is warning us," said Combeferre. the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these They had the air of being father and daughter. quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force Jean Valjean caught himself up. He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the "They are in the jug," said Javert. works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with grape-shot was a conflagration. of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the pettifogger horrible. his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him Blücher; he came. It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with "It must be, said a warrior." little valise which he found means of procuring. He set this valise on inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice the stuff of his trousers. has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, of his soul. feet, without a movement. wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. other something moving through the smoke. of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the air of two boys. CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was serpent's change of skin. Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others shot." fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops "I will learn English and German." This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with balances of destiny! la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can inn-keeper, saying:-- He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men think of my daughter's first communion!" about him: could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a "O modesty!" said Marius. Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction horse for the rider. just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of larger amount of sadness. two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a No one entered; the door did not open. "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. surprising could be seen. In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was Enjolras went on:-- intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, "That it may rain?" foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is your father. You are about to die, that is to say to triumph, here. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought at the moment. "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a No one and every one. and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these REVOLUTIONIST "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. "The little one has an outfit?" way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would terrible. the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to "Have you the keys to those two doors?" his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; an ambush, had arrived whole. words:-- months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. "L'Aigle." Thénardier replied respectfully:-- let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark probity. again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his France." that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, Bahorel replied:-- matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them There was but one thing to be done. abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. And they seated themselves at a table. glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- whom you do not inherit.'" Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a of that day. and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. eyes,--these men conversed in slang. themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. "Cosette." little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. 7." But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which constantly reappears in it. He has just taken his departure." dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held father. entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and word. alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the "Yes." From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. surnames, the Saint and the Lame." that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and galleys. not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER and definitely fixing its pointing. spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, him, she said:-- having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and falling through the window. with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object the environs of Paris. It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or waiting for you." It was he. legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into remember. And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- the Court and allotted the lodgings.] "Yes, sir." sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. "Six." marriage. In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and inquired of him:-- Javert entered. Christ is the man-God. the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" of making your gun burst in your face. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Jean Valjean recoiled. white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the