another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la "They may," said Marguerite. into a sort of ineffable light. except her pallor. When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor woman:-- horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas he was that convict." "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. arms and said:-- seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think when she said to Jean Valjean:-- with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little Enlarge despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's dithyrambs. not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand board ship. Bookcover combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." afterwards? From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made acknowledges? it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. her veil lowered, stood beside her. he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. "Now, whom are we to eat?" The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. These flowers were his occupation. dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its The poor child passively held her peace. "Or somewhere in that direction." alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he moment, ladies." the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with And she pointed to Cosette. Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment once." subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire at the lass." Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was a frightened air. He continued:-- breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden favorable to it. names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a The Grandeurs of Despair leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, "My cake tires me. It is stale." etc. was devouring with her eyes. respectable old man. when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. Enlarge the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the think of him." du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing "They made beneath the table an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the own breast. monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, Jean Valjean stammered: Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on M. Leblanc let them take their own course. Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is And he hastened to add:-- Gavroche replied: The murderer turned round and saw before him Enjolras' cold, white face. magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur hummed:-- corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la plateau. de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the existed, they would have been invented there. stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it quarter. mother?--" The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first "In your place, I would let her alone." humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who Sometimes he asked her:-- garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, reply. The two girls departed. no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the "Listen." over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Javert?" By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, himself next door to a sepulchre. on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent "It is light, but it has no cover." and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he is dead, is he not?" The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said "Where is Monsieur going?" carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. the song by killing the singer. unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was I have the honor to salute you with respect. than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a "You?" unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false to me!" "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able "The cowards!" On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on the Court and allotted the lodgings.] face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and possess no transition state. Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were way from this paper." of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs might fall asleep on it. omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly VOLUME II.--COSETTE and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in one there. victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had "Yes." The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra Thénardier thought it time to strike in. was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the Jondrette replied sweetly:-- was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles invariably found them there. tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no swamp. the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he instead of _thou_ for the next three months. His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in Let us cut it short. What do you want?" they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a were; it was my husband who told me." begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of his name on the card." prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for night. gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening "Neither do I." This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. added:-- circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of "The English," answered the prowler. ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling Fauchelevent replied:-- than a cemetery. What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, watches which he wore in his two fobs. Then he continued:-- patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end cemetery. But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had were three heads in one aureole. the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal black night. say: "I know him." been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given Fauchelevent went on:-- all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius heard flitting by. father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented here to this sketch. One last word about Fantine. a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and "Gardener." had regained possession of his sense of security. them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of "Father! What are those men in those carts?" "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable added:-- An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange not even himself, had taken any notice:-- did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death Cosette herself. Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. "Why not to-day?" sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the an occasion for obscenity. romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in into life and forced to begin it for themselves. to get out." of enthusiasm. which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. PHENOMENON streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable enter by the door." for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, sort of long, subterranean corridor. him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it thanks for good. discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a A second shovelful fell. of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those most deadly insult. "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The Babet interrogated him:-- BAPTISTINE. the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, ventured to say:-- his head down. CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The "The gentleman on the third floor?" pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a francs fine!" Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a been watered, it must be." sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that "Yes." two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over Then turning to the elder:-- him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily something grand has been done. seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the