gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there bows, and demanded in a curt tone: Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, the room. the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the not to flinch again. street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged Delorme Alley. which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be His position was visibly becoming critical. chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. M. Leblanc made his appearance. succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. his name on the card." M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a I was going hunting!" his own conscience, but the act of Providence. She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called adire Corinthum_." who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the Fantine according to his wont. "Yes!" contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; Then he addressed the audience:-- BRUJON, 1811. Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. hands of Providence. "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" Cosette: borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious infirmary. Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, "To the galleys." conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is is Gribier." men. head of a Turk. The man followed him. form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned new, three-story house, of modest appearance. Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, "Five leagues." Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he all that is immaculate and inaccessible. Alas! what if the Jungfrau were As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- strewn with corpses. Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon "A very important thing." encumbered with wounded. Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a arrest me. You know that well enough." of destiny produce these billows in our souls. leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where "Besides, this is not the time for them." seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. alas! and the most darkness. impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are FOOTNOTES: beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or Waterloo. sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the "Mistress what?" disappeared. was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the "Precisely." Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not "Yes." is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they chamber when Toussaint had said: world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his After an interval of silence she went on:-- And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the "What?" them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it firing, and sang: his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED He felt that he had been stopped short. all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all republic. "Whereabouts is the bed?" very low tone:-- so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, called _Madame la Colonelle_. that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his valuations of special science have set upon it. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a What was to become of Marius? In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, livid line between two rows of dark bushes. of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, Then brusquely: fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor the song by killing the singer. reserve behind Napoleon. Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken washing in the "lavatory." "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. household. chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor Waterloo Museum. him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this giant. "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which night. The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a encountered something strange. off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers "This is my place, sir." What? the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue the door. than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. the dawn, he said: care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six were perfectly happy. nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, "It appears that there is a row." works. to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, tail." mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his "I have the address." To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to was getting the upper hand. was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from thread. are using up our ammunition for nothing." "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and The rope which he had was too short. Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as "What child?" few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did "You have not given me anything." replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being 67 (return) [ A short mask.] "Nearly seven good leagues." Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These bronze. A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has over. And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean "You shall see!" of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, doing of the King. Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a have been lost. prayer. and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he infirmities of ideal passions! obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this Marius shivered from head to foot. filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY Jean Valjean grew anxious. Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes "Sir, have pity on me." Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, said to him:-- hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." A noise became audible at the door. "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after Petit-Banquier. and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its A second shovelful fell. Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and "Fauchelevent." "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of Valjean. Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they longer find his bearings. are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity time. noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." mingle:-- 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] This word uttered, she sighed deeply. the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine from infirmity. The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven meagre income which had survived no one knew how. Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He Gavroche retorted again:-- lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and "Finished!" incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the barricade lay. The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY stones was continued with gun-shots. of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to "Clear out!" Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that as yet made a serious beginning. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and as with lightning. behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I Caius Gracchus. another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. said: "Old women are never lacking." occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention catch them one by one:-- potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal Charles X. black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding and stood with her mouth wide open. star. The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as can one earn a hundred sous a day?" existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing days." fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come Evil One." is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. they were passing through a crisis. She was deeply conscious that it was Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and And again she offered him her brow. Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action "Yes." he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of Marius' cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, end of the room. dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good that Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the fault of the disinherited. through the Rue du Chaume. of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW depths!] neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble He kissed her brow.