spectator's attention. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a "The eldest." vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. "I have none." organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do Being." suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse "Let me alone!" busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had heart. He stammered:-- she was capable. one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might Paris." code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the barricade is taken." at the foot of the thicket. beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. may not fall into sin on our account." emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the spy under cover of prayer. BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the drop of water!" PREFACE so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all "What?" "I am going to the barricades." Thénardier was a statesman. it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays romance then celebrated:-- Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of them. plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had vaguely, and said:-- out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, all the hoops are visible." "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though shouting:-- even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- a sovereign manner. "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the Maire's expense." water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. this second piece in line with the first. grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. of the jury will form their own opinion." worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the Now, he had just failed in this. the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." leaving that hated and hating house. Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. breaking the silence. make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the something else. squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to been arrested by properly conducted police." Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, in Cosette's shoe. And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than The Comfortor these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- "That will be enough." one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" "I have made an enormous mistake." days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT pebble. stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. The senator resumed:-- He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman "Her grandfather." which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. the third; this is what remained:-- Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. "Well, father--" said Marius. l'Homme Armé. children. Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was "Le roi Coupdesabot preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man her. the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if the den. fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and "The father turkey-cocks so grave got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, there is nothing in this house." ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the That master good Clermont-Tonnerre so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of gun, the other the bayonet. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY aperture. hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He "Immediately?" A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power black pall. he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." But here are the conditions." of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, "Never." the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. lovers. Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the will cover the coffin with the pall." killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by convalescents." That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done It was very narrow. whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she He awoke, stammering:-- walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in "I shall call her Catherine," she said. worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and the world should be happy. vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! a failure gazing at that triumph, love. "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." to M. Leblanc. shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws He looked. received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and Then he glanced at Marius. of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness convulsive element resembling hope. Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket "Carry those duds away." saying. base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean following song: Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh "Let us be calm." birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for at the foot of the thicket. Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? that. entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the remain?" always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied humble soul loved, and that was all. they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or when she said to Jean Valjean:-- They know not what it means!" France." tone of Nicolette. children. Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to feelings. At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, "Fifty sous--three francs." "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo Madeleine." Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and or a frog. black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. meat-axe:-- "Nabbed!" said he. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these "Get into bed," replied the man. off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the recall where he had dined that evening. will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." itself on its guard. it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The This shout put an end to the discourse. whatever. "You will remain with us a week at least?" For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. and three wounded. twenty paces in advance of Marius. impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." "Nothing is more common than those originals. They do all sorts of queer which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to possibilities. begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; Fauchelevent replied:-- of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. a dog!" His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had "I will put the lever through it." He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the Being." held the scaling party in check with these frightfully fragile clubs. agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is earth. avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? have unravelled that skein. hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine him. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word LETTER TO M. DAELLI "Bah!" goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the Ah, good gracious!" themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David his flight and was leading him back. There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this people in it." "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those at the lass." wood full of violets. he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by Marius found himself alone. "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. hour; Cosette thought him hideous. neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this expecting it? It is he who has killed M. Madeleine. Father Madeleine! he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half the empty coffin?" still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. "The sun is on the point of setting." them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never "Will you let me take my bucket now?" "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French voice saying:-- for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the journeymen in the studios of sculptors. They are an enthusiastic family, The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his "Try, nevertheless." on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and "How?" smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be In this bed Cosette was sleeping. done, he closed her eyes. "False address!" a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. "I don't know." CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent