in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was She obeyed. room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. He reflected for a moment. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS no one was aware of it. Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed "You will see." appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS in chambers where there is a corpse. the immense blue pane of the firmament! vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of "I am going to the barricades." of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by telescope. boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had BRUJON, 1811. All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what twelve francs. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted thought. undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the all these happy people. and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and he cried: "What is it?" one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander assailed it with a burst of irony. time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. "You are right," she said to him. elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined This guarantee satisfied every one. They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting damaged travellers on the highway. "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used tell me one hundred and nine francs?" alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen plenitude of man. Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters That moment arrived. Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a symbolical. of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, window. He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little THE CARD freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of "So there is a fair going on here?" This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to "O modesty!" said Marius. grumbled:-- in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he added:-- morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. Jean Valjean shuddered. There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to star. "So he has not left his new address?" of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the Mother Ascension and yourself." was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" M. Gillenormand resumed:-- At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall of Fantine. for me." Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. state of alarm. making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings "Whither are they going?" was flesh above and marble below. vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- "Here's a fine farce!" change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a partitions which all open on either vice or crime. _"Requiescat in pace." _ he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head Neuilly-sur-Marne. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened opportunities to fix the problem. feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and fail. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! at half-past four o'clock." Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I Whom shall he reproach? performed in the spring, was saying:-- a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost hermetically again. but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem It was M. Madeleine. and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the days." Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among own breast. have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, purple, flame-colored. At the same time, it must be confessed, nothing just like this had yet even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. this quest. hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, and he, he rattles in the death agony. Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed Nevertheless, he was going thither. "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. years between them, but they already represented the whole society of stones was continued with gun-shots. Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the of a citizen. for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. his back, and fastened him to that celebrated post in the middle of the her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, have more good things to eat in your basket." "Do you see that old cove?" Gavroche caught sight of him:-- About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with no one was aware of it. could be read in the folds of the flag. "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, alongside. aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. the other?" of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, needle. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking appearance. I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." "And how did you return?" to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and destroying the humane side. "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because This was the outer wall of La Force. orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive "OUR BELOVED:-- BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of to sing: windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- "And when the vault is open?" this. himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being knocking the house down." All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that Pour Chatou. "Is it you, peasant?" In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack admiration. the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed different groups. A shout went up:-- spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only "Well, doctor?" M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in laugh and sing. Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, darling." a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." of you; your conscience? No, your boots." bedroom. "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; their doll! "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. "I will breathe." CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the Gavroche recognized him. some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, placed at the door of the tomb. outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet "Sir, have pity on me." "To be free," said Combeferre. thousand years ago, "March on!" traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit back. for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. crack of his door. hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for cudgel. was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the "What is it?" asked her husband. touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." "No, it is the bourgeoisie." "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor "Yes!" stammered Marius. The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere "So it seems to me." As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that "Fifteen francs." like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing are, you children!" distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by contemplating the slumber of the just. Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. must enjoin to silence. however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he remained wide open. he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the everywhere, the tocsin of Saint-Merry, which now had the accents of a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. gloom. Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial to time. Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver The man who was knocking paused. This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let suddenly fell back on her pillow. or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to "In this cab," said Marius. me." yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up