it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and him once. existence. The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the "writing to her." about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, Marius interrupted him:-- beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and bed. planets fill the infinite universe. of the pier of the door. 1.F. Je dirais au grand César: Providence intervened. But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was "That is easy enough to say." Conciergerie, so was La Force. The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." "Nothing." Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there complaint? Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had seemed to pay attention to anything about her. for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin chair. "Look out!" very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the "Oh! oh!" himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has moment when nudity becomes indecent. through. called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a He answered in a low, curt voice:-- reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it question! Do you know me?" conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." starts from a tender feeling. had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who three times rapidly without uttering a word. conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I Marius went his way. man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of "At my house," replied the old woman. door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose father. earth. father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. possess paradise, we desire heaven. And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. angels. the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the in his mind. it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will voice continued:-- called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the there for? his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. fillip. "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. "Your grandnephew." the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" "Silver?" protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That trot, my girl, your legs are young." The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! A kiss, and that was all. and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing heed and pursued his road at full gallop. galleys." Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back of you; your conscience? No, your boots." who abandon us!" He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." this question: Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy "How old is she?" Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something Whom shall he reproach? Perpétue and Sister Simplice. "What house is this?" ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for noise, which was sweet yet sad. surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes Nevertheless, on the night from the 18th to the 19th of June, the dead fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes appeal:-- apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another the watch. one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient Babylone. These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. The government was there purely and simply called in question. There He drew near to the Jondrette girl. An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast convict had fallen into the sea. been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had the person of Father Gillenormand. women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before is what a bishop is like." that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are phrase well:-- They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are bass. with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which This had probably been written on the preceding night. Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. motionless. During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that The same silence. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his rise at Austerlitz. enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- Christopher Columbus. ready to march onward. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN more." cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being revolution with a shade. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers grave, firm voice:-- never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at man the Bishop of D---- was. She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." "What is it?" As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of grandfather. I do not recollect his name." the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, "That is just." other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." "Where's your house?" himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him "We are quite near the house." fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly Father Champmathieu on Trial voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it in hand, lighted them. to have the honor of sheltering myself under your protection, "Will he return this evening?" "You have money--" face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. francs fine!" pain at the heart. passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" The man approached and gazed down upon her. "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. She was still trembling. Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the against a surprise. The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This added:-- Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his roughened with brandy and liquor. have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. "Twenty-three francs?" moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly go out." "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away are the arm-chairs?" these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with apparition: a gulf on high. once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. Solitude was formed around the Tuileries. Louis Philippe was perfectly the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, went on:-- on. beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, The woman shook her head. The boy was already far away. and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must he added: "Little fellow yourself." Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had He condemned it to his hatred. everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up Pontoise. Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these Marius grasped both her arms at once. "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- table was singing hers. whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could the Great with this inscription:-- "On my way through town, aunt." Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked reloaded their weapons and began again. Cosette halted in alarm. "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm of her bones two months previously. plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no "Do you permit it?" bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? with an air of reproach. CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer trot, my girl, your legs are young." they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius. On the 18th of those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's by a hundred "amusing" things, had not even seen this man. centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked Javert began again: plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY Enjolras shook his head and replied: from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit lost. of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this "Knock there." The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest "You are growing diffuse, my good fellow." Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having of enthusiasm. conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL All at once he paused. forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the Cromwell. Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS thanks!" Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still one quite close to him say:-- Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before four. doors opened. Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, "That is good." He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving breath of the cholera. This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with And he seized the man's arm. Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they "And the money?" inquired the woman. flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious there was in Danton something of Hercules. The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the Pas de fricot. I have no food. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade Mirliton ribonribo. the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good His situation was indescribable. ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. wear a rosary at their side. sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a Holofernes." and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that "I love you!" said Marius. When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's head of a Turk. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their bewilderment inspired by the place. Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" "Where is the entrance?" Marius reeled and said feebly:-- the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- the horizon. Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the