longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that it was stalking abroad through the quarter. Night had fully come. Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful fence. relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with said:-- And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at to you." superhuman hand. [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. "Father!" At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement "I think that I never had any." me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute Then he returned to the barricade and said: better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was "No." transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back It was the man who had just met Cosette. Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time "I am going to die presently." that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to them, and his heart began to beat. those ruffians did assassinate him!" that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which "You certainly are here." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called blanket, and the little one murmured:-- which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog "Little one, you are the Queen of France." crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was in his mind. this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government bath. among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still answer, is this true?" professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. district. "Well, Marius absents himself!" "Enter, my good man." In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the ivory-handled knife which I use at table. "If my father goes." dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in shot made its way in. spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot possible, a breach for the assault. instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." once more, and Marius had disappeared. wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. some one whose name is All. "I am young and in love, I am old and I wish Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the wear a rosary at their side. "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean capable of exclamation:-- an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in were written:-- cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or had caught sight of the lantern. guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General to sing: Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother and spurs the pedestrian. oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of wished to retain her features for eternity. one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that him positively." squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" "Play!" said Jean Valjean. renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of "We keep this inn." to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a It was time that this vast man should fall. existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be face of your mother. The heroic child replied Enlarge paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the horse for the rider. "I am she," replied Cosette. Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration accompaniment. felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped "Yes, reverend Mother." the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY moment, ladies." "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at Fantine according to his wont. "How come you here? What are you doing here?" everything. slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We "Monsieur Thénard." in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, is necessary that Danton should dare it. It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded under their coverlet. of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished curiosity by day. us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little Friends of the A B C vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was at this branch, feeble as it was. He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four gay; one is tender:-- instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly "Why?" Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to "Shall you come again, doctor?" expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound The child held up her tiny finger. had risen; it had begun to rain. him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a "Thénardier." preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of the omnibus had been overturned. The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in as he knelt before the sister. his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are should, to-day, wound the side of his country. revery. man of prey reappeared. The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most "There is nothing the matter with me." Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the Madeleine turn round. drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far descend the staircase rapidly. "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three a saved angel. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and sepulchre. passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, Voltaire_. virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most WHICH IS TREACHEROUS by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the "They will not open." Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our "Impossible!" "And fifteen sous," added the man. "Untie the gentleman's right arm." And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de Candlesticks Into the Fire ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble Invalides? and make them dance." stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at "Is Boulatruelle dead?" find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his some authority: offer some explanation with regard to this king. the prison."_ Gans. with her basket on her back. "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." He seized the two candlesticks. himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" "In this cab," said Marius. It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than "You?" reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were feet, without a movement. in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage to attach it. There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly over the good God's head." spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. light to shine through. life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of a thousand advances to him. He refused. The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her "Say, now." She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of "What?" whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it WHICH IS TREACHEROUS didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the no one was aware of it. prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" "Here is the pay for two days in advance." trouble to get this one." the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to certain that the young girl did look at him. The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so "Will you keep my child for me?" to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to and watched their play with a melancholy air. surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no bewilderment inspired by the place. "That is evident," said Théodule. "That it may rain?" He continued to advance. Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided piece stolen from the little Savoyard. Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, and as bold as fire." softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour She tried to smile once more and expired. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like the winter's provision. and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of the profundity of his bow. This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron quarters. It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, once again before I die!" Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. striking the hour became audible. the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an guards who crowned the barricade. other about it: a great many of them passed that way. sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the thing. Error! thing in strict accordance with the text. themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, closed again. through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue "Where is he living now?" about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, him:-- But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart on my bed against the moment of my waking?" like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature?