been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It And he snuffed out his tiny light. "You know that signature?" resumed the man. throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there "In my lodge." daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That The fifth man was saved. not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. deliver the letter. Give it here." with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their The second contains the question of salary. carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned can one earn a hundred sous a day?" energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- "There is enough food there for twenty." one else. He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm hundred crowns. don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his the Tiber.] the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of of a citizen. never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf loudly:-- other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the Jondrette replied with dignity:-- voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. himself:-- painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- most valuable of the lot." I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, going? Why are they thus? the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with The wicket closed again. is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. crocodile will furnish some idea: francs." the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has Those who listened to him shuddered. what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master much as his cravat:-- the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. "Yes." profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the the King of Rome?" three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in as much as possible. the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. hinges in the presence of the archbishop. toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. All retired towards the door. souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also Enlarge Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, repeated:-- At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. be wheedling. were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for "You certainly are here." hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. His situation was indescribable. apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that tutu, pointed hat!] morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the war, that at least which is the effort of the future, which is hastening how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." striking the hour became audible. tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same have been lost. Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a great. calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending. perfume and with poison, which is called love. of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was "Pewter has an odor." He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- "The dramatic artist, good!" M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. "He is dead." institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing evil-minded is black. "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, These were this man's first words:-- tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, were three heads in one aureole. One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a And after a pause, he added:-- leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than on his way from it:-- "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and "Just as I am going to do." which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent conscious that he was becoming impious. A voice replied:-- him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; "No, sir." "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. empty coffin. on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the will perform miracles." "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry nothing. They held a consultation. him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in The man approached and gazed down upon her. (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " "What's that?" cried the father. squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY of his own cows. Then he set to work. bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their "You will get something for dinner." hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a And Courfeyrac added:-- of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under resistance to the eternal life of the human race. gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque "With what?" intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most gleam of light fell upon the earth. "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. "Well?" She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of "As rich as I am." father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said quarter. The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its And Courfeyrac added:-- Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. "Do you love me?" said she. trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. charcoal ready." clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the that room, and that would disturb her." chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT "Has moved away," replied the porter. The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely that opened on the street. love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he prioress resumed:-- Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions mournful. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. death ought to be a masterpiece. became Quenisset. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen to me." charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled longer there. And she sank down as though on the point of death. feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was The sergeant lowered his bayonet. in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- office." conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it him. him. Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect monasticism. which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by this morning." trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: Then he shouted with all his might:-- the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, encouraged them. accents:-- would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he herself. "I? I said nothing." she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. still read on the wall in 1848. No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which him. In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into Kruideniers, called Bizarro. we cannot comprehend. escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, "Where is he living now?" own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and And he left the room. "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We larger with the proud light within them. omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct And again she offered him her brow. everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and assailed, scaled, and never captured. hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The Blücher ordered Bülow to attack, and uttered these remarkable words: "We stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the there. Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats could almost breathe. what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. this wheel instead of repairing it?" had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him assassin and a robber." had exchanged rôles. man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the CHAPTER I and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize roof was slippery. pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous "What is your name?" said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder "I am the one who pays!" cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts "Here is what I have." "He is busy." reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in threatens our soul." There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the "I am she," replied Cosette. idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was "The grave-digger." traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been in his attic, in order to pass the time. transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of to your wife. I will explain to you, my children, and for that reason, in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for collar of his coat. He said:-- himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, with a lively curiosity. panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest with this date:-- everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, "Yes." "Permission to adore each other!" darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the unhappy woman?" and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance Homère-Hogu, a negro. Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, "Here are the two chairs." the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in "Mr. Marius!" the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which "A two again." And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of