yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the dining-room. King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; "To England. Shall you go?" "What! so it's that imp!" was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed And turning to Marius:-- The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: approach us with offers to donate. there were many ascents. These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the nicely with your young ones." through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes He started to his feet. had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of All breasts were oppressed. "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; hunger for the light. formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be remained deserted. influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips will not scold you." The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year refrain from a gesture of surprise which did not escape Jondrette. his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by "Carry those duds away." dream. "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections inherited his pickaxe. under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil "Then I understand the girl is rich?" masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. "It is so solitary here." of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung Who were these Thénardiers? though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become against a surprise. disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking cried all the evening lay asleep. is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. "What street?" listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he "Are you a police spy, sir?" 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his fashion in barracks and hospitals. contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even "Admit him," he said. finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at near her ear:-- and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and den. Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell "How does one get it?" droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of which Marius had observed. "I." exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this towards all children and sufferers. Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time "All that is engaged." straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " "What is it?" asked her husband. Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted that is to say, to the light. attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right occupied themselves with the question of happiness. porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." acclamations. that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as How I'd treat him to a nice respectful summons! How nicely I'd get along universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier angels. again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; "Or elsewhere." "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time "Ber--" between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to "What are you?" M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. vermin. This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a said to Enjolras: Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary presented itself. officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed glow of those salamanders of the fray. These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of called _Madame la Colonelle_. where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to conquer Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; heart. He stammered:-- he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." kissed it. his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." meet again presently? Take your letter." One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to idea of anything similar. if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm dark. She had recognized the gamin. tone: "Well?" Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my Jean Valjean resumed: returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. "Hey?" said Gavroche again. sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what village of Austerlitz. In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. by the fire. child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that Cosette With Letter continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the "You know that we are about to die." framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, life. soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What "Where is he living now?" "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling his hair and trickled down upon his temples. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION table. of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall her in a low voice:-- CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to on high the statue of a people. "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were to-day, with justice." Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is is its sewer system. "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." inside. Do you remain outside and observe." towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, Marius:-- Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and "Are you there?" To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. of his meditation? transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. you!" "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, crumble and new ones rise. to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred "Because I have no money." However, the inn-keeper did not give up. attention must be directed to power. unhappy woman?" immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to "Come in," said the Bishop. He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than recesses of his soul, "Never!" "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. replaced her. Why?" seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these "The plate is quite full." voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other alms_. eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little their hands. had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. "Yes." glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it "As if he were the only father." The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. gravity:-- Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking meditated. under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan He opened the envelope. manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." the few following lines: not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. chair. witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused done." Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. "Eight, sir." mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. tutu, pointed hat!] embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED "I can't." Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the drop of water!" everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran and fell to thinking about his father. "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur "And fifteen sous," added the man. threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a unfolding this paper. to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. yard than in close confinement. the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted Friends of the A B C trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which "That Argenteuil wine." had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal "Shoot me," said Enjolras. "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter with the infinity on high, is called praying. nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific