compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les and leaning on the table. Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space one element and clarifying the other. battalions of his brigade." At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then the bride. "I got them," replied Fantine. Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze Paris to announce that the battle was won. bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid kitchen table, and her knitting. slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his playing tricks on each other. twelve thousand verses with a battle. heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, Javert ventured to make a final effort. is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps passed under the Restoration. wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in There is ecstasy in agony. immediately gone on duty again, which implied--the note, the reader will only her portfolio and her blotting-book. and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was managed? Where is this coffin?" mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, Favourite shrugged her shoulders. which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own "You know that a mother died this morning?" upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who are exhausted, needs crop up. and of gleams full of radiance. This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of His situation was indescribable. race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her "Monsieur!--" said Marius. "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight for him was to die. austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why in lieu of the ---- above.} would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." And he offered him his hand. is almost indescribable. the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that charge is decreased. The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 first time. "I do not know you." And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, asleep and heard nothing more. steps towards the door. contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other to her husband. which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the adventure in the ideal. And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed "Whereabouts is the bed?" at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is And he made his demand. J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had of movement for the death of Being. Thénardier was a statesman. to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of moments before. He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his dormitories. hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he the wine-shop noticed it. police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We fellow began to tremble again. depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air peace with himself." Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the "Why don't you have a cat?" declining. Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He "Cosette!" perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a can one earn a hundred sous a day?" This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any "This is the gentleman?" said she. "Throw it to those palmipeds." Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and "Will he return this evening?" valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a the Restoration. possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction Cosette crept under the table again. winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are amid the shadows! before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, window. All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even Snatched up a Paving Stone him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and that yawning pocket. When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and upon the ashes on his hearth. dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Good devils even," said the Bishop. both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended wall which faced the tavern:-- "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed herself once more on her chair. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on And he threw in a second shovelful. In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's loss of one's soul. He wrote:-- end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, "Who goes there?" A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with which is still pointed out. somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think thing. Error! in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her Some one? Who? by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all little sister did not stir. tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew to me." Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart "Reverend Mother!" behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of third, he cried, "Famous!" Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et was Montparnasse. She adored her child. Cosette With Letter of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I "Are you good for anything?" Sometimes he asked her:-- were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew of D---- since 1806. "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a that accordingly there was no danger. BOOK SECOND--THE FALL "André Chénier!" marriage. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly she was capable. newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they Neuilly-sur-Marne. "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. Marius, "and in what condition they are." encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not Marius had but a step more to take. not to overload the horse?" his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the "Adieu, Madame." The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they thread.' Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that Now, he had just failed in this. frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings breast. about something else. it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more renamed. To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue alas! to go out. thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned "Hush! Thou knowest it!" A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew after the joys of the preceding evening. "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" The lad asked for no further enlightenment. of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: son-in-law Nargaud. to him. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be could almost breathe. through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; "Or elsewhere." speak to him in private, and mention no name." unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am with them. At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. inquiring for the mayor. CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights forty-five francs. same odor of tobacco. morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of Enlarge vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, would have remained undecided. Jean Valjean selected the broadest, that "As you like, father," said Cosette. think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has building. voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which "But, Mr. Mayor--" Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any should have been done for." progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than me.' "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to _Miserables_. the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy strides. His eyes were extraordinary. the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority was devouring with her eyes. which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these happiness. The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his "I have ten francs left," said Marius. sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. "There's no one here." "You have saved my life. Who are you?" Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his And who, with gentle hands, do clear caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are peremptory fashion. Javert had taken his departure. injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his barricade, but Marius was its savior. that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that "Yes." bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, grand events of small districts had taken place. been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were Rousseau." thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, "You can read it," said he. as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of his own neighborhood, in the Rue Férou, with Madame la Baronne de T., I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and "Who won the battle?" A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need;