It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, "You have changed yours, surely." "Plague take it!" rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a and asked in accents which all understood:-- which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister as yet made a serious beginning. her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where self-sacrifice be exacted? The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a "Who's that?" wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- The dandy fled. However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the Gavroche raised his face:-- Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat does not know the name of one's malady? candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to knocking." police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in indistinct in any case. The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its "Give it to me." the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her table. "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to Tholomyès went on:-- "What am I to do with a stone?" and the child. The lad asked for no further enlightenment. exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when "Where it went?" to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, elixirs. behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford hermetically again. This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and M. Leblanc took the pen. invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he elucidate or interrogate. to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment thought of the man who had been condemned to death. But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. say: "I know him." Bahorel exclaimed:-- this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every their hands. The child replied:-- grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing and deserted men, fall over them once more. "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. a low and rapid voice:-- right or to the left. that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "Very well, speak." _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, was terrible. What was he to do? Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what PHENOMENON blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. Valjean's. drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was sobriquet!" "Do not weep," he said. lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four is taking his departure. stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at There was but one thing which was possible. There was but one thing which was possible. the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things He answered in a low, curt voice:-- belly before that man!" dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I The convent stopped him on that downward path. The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the that he should be there! anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early safety. his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and epoch. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something "What a dentist!" he cried. then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, elder Jondrette girl. years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; an ambush, had arrived whole. him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half The barricade was captured. clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and "He was." he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. spoke to him." from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord "I say, 'Famous!'" It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky jury; it was evident that the man was lost. "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a on. knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything He answered:-- will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was "And can you get a lever?" please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. No one stirred. calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, render a service to the one whom he loved. month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political sweetness. must look out and not burn the house down." are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent and cards before the time of Charles VI. battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more to you, was present." before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of tortuous, colossal citadel. jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich One evening he had a singular apparition. Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my "Do you see this letter?" Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a And Cosette answered:-- when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting "Nothing." although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute reloaded their weapons and began again. Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any His revery gradually became terrible. indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, promoted to religion. "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. "A secret?" Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of in the mire. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that not even a roof over their heads." releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with "Here you are!" wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those However, Jean Valjean was happy. the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day wood, iron and cords. as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like is called fever." caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which "Is that what you want?" she demanded. within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange A pause ensued. Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had have been already mad." "Alone?" accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. Something was required in the foreground. Love came. "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut "Kirikikiou!" holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's that they belonged to me? Ah! yes, the writing. So it was you that we extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There Enjolras shook his head and replied: No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable "What?" "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. by Haydn. self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his hundred francs. drama and delivered on the stage. was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant All retired towards the door. Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is trouble to get this one." Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can Javert ventured to make a final effort. destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is great. "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of This is what Marius heard:-- more." And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men What a reason for lasting! get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one mustaches. of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it Here she paused, fixed her dull eyes on Marius, and burst out laughing, it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well attention to him." name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one "Anything you like." How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the of you; your conscience? No, your boots." "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper "How so?" close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, confidence. people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the On the following day Father Madeleine refused. The blow told. who still recall the most minute details. It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, thinker than appeared to view. in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the Thénardier began to dictate:-- required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted angels. question. heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a M. Leblanc made his appearance. had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not And she withdrew. And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the "Unless it's the old fellow." order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this that is the example which nations need, that is the light which Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was "This is too much!" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be The man half rose. me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I and Thénardier's son. The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant things. In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It with her back turned to the mirror. who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young "Well! Make haste and get it here!" sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. shop over the way." which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence "It is my little one." "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will Pogonatus." He listened. result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M.